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). I agree with you about i386 desktops/servers running under stairs being a bad idea at this point, but I'm not convinced that this netbook hardware should just be binned. One probably could find some other hardware (and we will one day - the plan is to find/configure some open router hardware that can actually run the fancy scriptage/setup needed then everything can be in one box, but not this year). 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. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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