On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:17 PM Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? > > I'm using Debian (currently stable, tho I often end up moving to > testing) on my Thinkpad X30, yes. > The Thinkpad X30 has a 1.2Ghz Pentium M processor which is i686 not i386. Did you upgrade the RAM from its origional 512MB. > The quality of support for this hardware has evolved over the years, but > in my experience Debian 11 is the first release that's clearly better > than all the previous ones (the previous "best version" for me was just > before the move to KMS, which introduced various regressions on this > hardware, and it's only with Debian 11 that I can again run this > hardware without any workaround or occasional annoyances). > > > I ask because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) > > to i686 Pentium 4 and newer. > > That would leave *very* few CPUs among those supported by `i386` but not > `amd64` :-( > > > Stefan > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
