Re: Debian release criteria.
On Thu 05 Jan 2023 at 23:34:12 (-0500), Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 1:57 PM <peter@easthope.ca> wrote:
> > David Wright wrote on Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:46:39 -0600
For clarification …
> > > I ran FF on a 500MB i386 laptop to the end of buster, ...
> >
>
> Debian dropped support for i386, i486 and Pentium I a while ago. Pentium II
> and newer are currently still supported.
The architecture of the laptop is i386 in Debian terminology,
but the class is 686: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz.
> > > I now run my i386 laptop just for its portability. I have eight
> > > xterms open in fvwm, and use it to set things going on the four
> > > or five other machines scattered through the house (all 64-bit).
All run bullseye, but I no longer attempt to run FF on the i386.
By the time I installed bullseye on the i386, I think FF 78 had
already moved on to 91, and it was just too slow in 500MB.
Cheers,
David.
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