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Toes♀ ( Toes@ani.social )  to Linux@sopuli.xyz · 2 years ago

Debian Trixie raises x86 minimum requirements to i686.

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Debian Trixie raises x86 minimum requirements to i686.

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Toes♀ ( Toes@ani.social )  to Linux@sopuli.xyz · 2 years ago
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5. Issues to be aware of for forky —DRAFT— — release-notes documentation
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cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/9568483

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  • IsoKiero ( IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    The AMD Geode they’re using as an example was released in 1999. So, if you happen to have 25+ year old hardware still running the latest Debian might not work for you.

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      There’s still NetBSD or Gentoo(i486) out there for anyone left behind.

    • lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr) ( lnxtx@feddit.nl ) 
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      Technically, architecture called “i686” was first released in November 1, 1995 (29 years ago).
      But in the AMD Geode case, it’s not fully follow it I think.

      EDIT:
      Wikipedia article says:

      Other than AMD K7/K8, [NOPL was] broadly unsupported in non-Intel processors released before 2005

      and cites this source.

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