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.
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.
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.
There’s still NetBSD or Gentoo(i486) out there for anyone left behind.
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:
and cites this source.