On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Iustin Pop wrote: > Anyway, what I mean to say: thanks for finally motivating me to upgrade. > This move definitely makes sense, but I wouldn't be so sure that there > are no actual production systems running on a 586-only CPU.
As another data point, I have a customer which uses Debian on Vortex86 based CPU and they are actually selling small embedded computers based on this CPU to various manufacturers (for production monitoring purpose). So there are current use cases where 586 support is still required. That said I'm not opposing the change as we have 5 years of jessie lifetime left and in this kind of usage, it's really stable that matters. And in 5 years, DM&P (the vortex cpu manufacturer) will probably have upgraded its CPU. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
