Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agoI need a 32 bit dist for netbookmessage-squaremessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up156arrow-down1message-squareI need a 32 bit dist for netbookDroechai@piefed.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square41linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours ago but the debian i386 architecture means all 32 bit x86 processors. https://wiki.debian.org/i386 That was very confusing to me. I’m sure they have their reasons, but calling it something like x86 would’ve been more clear to me. The original x86 platform. Now requires “686” class CPU. Unsupported in trixie and newer except in chroots on amd64 hosts. https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures
minus-squarebeleza pura@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-258 minutes ago I’m sure they have their reasons maybe compatibility reasons. i guess they used to support i386 back in the day and didn’t want to break the couple of systems that were installed on bo and have been upgrading ever since
https://wiki.debian.org/i386
That was very confusing to me. I’m sure they have their reasons, but calling it something like x86 would’ve been more clear to me.
https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures
maybe compatibility reasons. i guess they used to support i386 back in the day and didn’t want to break the couple of systems that were installed on bo and have been upgrading ever since