Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 20 days agoI need a 32 bit dist for netbookmessage-squaremessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareI need a 32 bit dist for netbookDroechai@piefed.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square39linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days ago but the debian i386 architecture means all 32 bit x86 processors. https://wiki.debian.org/i386 That was very confusing to me. I’m sure they have their reasons, but calling it something like x86 would’ve been more clear to me. The original x86 platform. Now requires “686” class CPU. Unsupported in trixie and newer except in chroots on amd64 hosts. https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures
https://wiki.debian.org/i386
That was very confusing to me. I’m sure they have their reasons, but calling it something like x86 would’ve been more clear to me.
https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures