It's been a long journey - may it rest in peace. A word of condolence to anybody fixed on old hardware. If you cannot upgrade, there is still the BSD-family which offer support down to 80486. And they, too, are systemd-free :)
https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/i386.html https://www.openbsd.org/i386.html http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/i386/ Nik Anno domini 2020 Wed, 1 Jul 12:37:35 +0100 Mark Hindley scripsit: > Friends, > > On 30th June 2020, Debian was scheduled to end its Long Term Support (LTS) for > Debian 8 ('Jessie')[1]. As a result, the Devuan Project will be archiving its > first release, codename Jessie. Since Jessie will receive no further > maintenance or updates (including security fixes), it will be removed from > Devuan's mirror network to a new Devuan service that has been set up to hold > historical archived releases[2]. > > If you are still using Devuan Jessie, please upgrade to Devuan ASCII (or via > ASCII to Beowulf) as a matter of urgency. Any users with very old x86 hardware > (pure Pentium class processors) please note that Debian dropped support for > i586 > in Debian 9 ('Stretch')[3] so ASCII and subsequent releases will not work for > you. > > Also, the deprecated package repositories on http://packages.devuan.org and > http://auto.mirror.devuan.org have only been maintained for compatibility with > Devuan Jessie. They will be decommissioned very shortly. We kindly ask all > users > of Devuan ASCII and Beowulf to ensure that they are using > http://deb.devuan.org > in their APT sources lists. > > Yours > > Mark Hindley > > On behalf of the Devuan Dev Team > _________ > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Jessie > [2] https://archive.devuan.org > [3] > https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#i386-is-now-almost-i686 > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
