Anyone know of anything fitting an Eeepc?

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not all 32-bit systems are i386

but the debian i386 architecture means all 32 bit x86 processors. there's no "i686" build of debian

there are no i586 or i686 kernel or iso available, you can look for them. i386 packages only exist for compatibility reasons, so you can run 32 bit applications on amd64 machines. please read the release notes

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    but the debian i386 architecture means all 32 bit x86 processors.

    https://wiki.debian.org/i386

    That was very confusing to me. I'm sure they have their reasons, but calling it something like x86 would've been more clear to me.

    The original x86 platform. Now requires "686" class CPU. Unsupported in trixie and newer except in chroots on amd64 hosts.

    https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I'm sure they have their reasons

    maybe compatibility reasons. i guess they used to support i386 back in the day and didn't want to break the couple of systems that were installed on bo and have been upgrading ever since

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