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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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#i386 machines running #Debian 12 Bookworm (blahaj.zone)

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#i386 machines running #Debian 12 Bookworm

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Debian 13 drops support for i386, which is bad news for my parents' laptops. I don't have the time to help them hop on a different distro right now, but I wonder if anybody here is in the same boat.

@VoidLinux@chaos.social and @alpinelinux@fosstodon.org, my two faves, still offer support. FreeBSD demoted i386 to tier 2 in 2021. What else is out there?

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[–] santiago@mastodon.uy 2 points 1 week ago

@foxy @alpinelinux @VoidLinux @debian I switched to Slackware 15 for 32 bit support about 2 years ago... Debian and systemd is too heavy for i386 hardware