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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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[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just stick with bookworm? It'll have LTS support until 2033. Though you really should consider replacing hardware that old.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My father had given my grandma a 486 (or maybe even 386) laptop with Windows 3.11 when that was already severely outdated. As a result I can now listen to her memoirs because she was able to type them up in Word.

What I want to say is, if the machine is working for them just leave it be. Especially with the LTS.

[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Sure, I've got some ancient machines myself but I don't try to run the latest the software on them. Only reason for that is if you need to use them on the internet in which case for security and compatibility it's better to use newer hardware.