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[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 12 points 4 days ago

Understandable, but still kind of sad to see support for 32-bit dying. Mostly because it makes me feel old. :P

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 days ago

i686 is a 32-bit architecture introduced in 1995. 32-bit is still supported.

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes, but the architectures they are dropping are older 32-bit ones. That's why I said support is "dying", not "dead".

The changelog itself notes that this is about 32-bit support:

Debian's support for 32-bit PC (known as the Debian architecture i386) now no longer covers any i586 processor.

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