On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 12:06:32PM +0200, Programowanie i Granie wrote:
But I gotta be honest, the news about scrapping i386 support in Trixie? Kinda hit like a brick. Yeah, I get it, there’s probably a mountain of technical headaches and, sure, 32-bit machines aren’t exactly the hot new thing. Still, there’s a bunch of us out here (and a lot of folks in schools, or just scraping by) who keep these old boxes alive. Sometimes that’s all you’ve got, you know? Keeping i386 around isn’t just about nostalgia. We’re talking less e-waste (Mother Earth will thank you), plus giving people with tight budgets a shot at decent, up-to-date software. Feels pretty important to me.
Great. How much of your personal, private time are you willing to invest in keeping a toolchain for i386 maintained for the next three to four years? A toolchain that Upstream is kind of no longer interested in and that is quickly bitrotting away?
Are you maybe willing to sponsor some of the work in terms of giving people money to keep i386 running?
That being said, we released last week. That's a bit late for an offer to contribute.
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