On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:19:35AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I think simulation of 32-bit x86 will get _more_ important as year 2038 > approaches, not less, because in about 2037, people will suddenly notice > they need to test things before deployment.
Ah but if Debian doesn't support i386 as an architecture then the test for deployment is very simple: you can't deploy, game over ;) > [1] Running nroff and troff on an emulated PDP-11/45 running Version 7 > Unix, to resolve compatibility defects in groff and settle arguments > about "authentic" Unix *roff behavior. Dustin Kirkland once did a demo where he booted every 6-monthly Ubuntu release since the dawn of time in a VM (15+ at the time, I think). That's much more useful for software archaeology of this sort than providing i386 host support in *future* Debian releases. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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