On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:42:41AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:42:37 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386 > > support you should probably look into contributing. > > And how does one do that? > > -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/
If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware that you can press into service that isn't being used: pick up a Debian i386 disk and try reinstalling Debian. If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware - get a copy of a Debian live CD and boot it - you may face probelms if there isn't a lot of memory. We *know*_ you can run 32 bit Debian on an AMD64 though without a lot of obvious benefit - that's where some of the bigger packages like Boost and Mozilla Firefox are having to be built these days. If you read the thread over in debian-release / debian-cd lists, you should see what people are saying. There's possibly an option to keep a subset of packages to allow for running 32 bit closed source stuff like games rather than a full release. Interestingly, the same points were made by Ben Hutchings five years ago now when Debian dropped 586 support - https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00589.html - they can only become more relevant with time. As the person who raised the question initially, I may go back to the lists with a summary to see if there's any consistent way forward. All best, Andy C
