On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 04:25 +0100, Wookey wrote: > On 2023-05-19 12:42 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > If they're still running > > i386 *hardware*, then they should be replacing that hardware with more > > modern, more capable, more *efficient* stuff. > > I'm still using an i386 early acer netbook. (I even just upgraded it 4 > releases from Wheezy to Bookworm to get a newer Alfa wifi card working > with a mdern kernel). It's only used for ~1 month/year, primarily as a > fancy long-range wifi router and it's reasonably low power. An rPI > would not be a useful replacement as it's not the same form factor > (robust clamshell, with screen/mouse). [...] > Removing the installer to stop supporting _new_ installs is probably > fair enough but I don't think we can yet say there are no reasonable > use cases for old i386 hardware.
I don't think that is a good use case to keep i386 installations on i386 hardware alive beyond 2028 (which is what we are talking about): just grab a slightly newer amd64 netbook out of the junk by the time LTS support for Debian bookworm ends. Ansgar
