Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?
I understand your point about 32 bit being updated forever, and perhaps
it does not need to be. Perhaps the happy medium would be to freeze it
at some point, but leave it available as-is so that legacy software with
32 bit dependencies can still be installed and run. In other words, no
longer developing for 32 bit does not mean that it cannot be found.
Perhaps a different repository, with disclaimer(?) so that users can
enable it if desired?
On 12/15/20 8:47 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:40:29AM -0500, Devops PK Carlisle LLC wrote:
>> Being philosophically opposed to throwing a good machine into a
>> landfill, I tend to hang on to equipment for a long time. My
>> play/experimentation and last-ditch backup box is a 10 year old laptop.
>
> I hear that, but at least around here it's literally possible to grab
> machines that are less than 10 years old that are on their way to the
> landfill. So scratch your itch by saving a machine less than 10 years
> old, then throw the really old one away instead. I'm unconvinced that
> running a stable of unneeded old machines is either great from a waste
> standpoint or something that should dictate the direction of the
> project. Debian isn't devoted specifically to supporting functionally
> obsolete hardware indefinitely, and when obsolete hardware makes it hard
> to move forward we need to just drop it. There are other projects which
> do strive to support old hardware indefinitely, and I highly recommend
> looking at one of those if hardware you want to use is no longer
> supported by debian. I personally run netbsd on some of my nostalgia
> hardware, but there are other options that may work better for you
> depending on what you're trying to do.
>
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