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Re: differences among amd64 and i386





On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 7:45 PM Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:
On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 18:19 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge
>
> Instruction set x86-64
> Instructions    x86, x86-64
>
> You could run amd64 on this machine.  Right now, you have a choice
> between the two, but some distributions have already dropped support
> for i386.  amd64 would be the more future-proof choice.

Just announced today [1] it looks like Debian will drop i386 installs
for the next release.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html

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Tixy


Goodbye i386, you had a good run.


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