[TUHS] Macs and future unix derivatives

[Larry McVoy]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 02:02:34PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 10:55:50PM -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
> > That was true decades ago, but no longer.  In the intervening time, all
> > the major Linux distributions have stopped releasing OS's that support
> > 32-bit machines.  Even those that support 32-bit CPUs have often
> > desupported the earlier CPUs (like, what was wrong with the 80386?).

Um, John, it's 33mhz part.  Who wants that?

> So there is currently a *single* volunteer supporting the 32-bit i386
> platform for Debian, and in December 2020 there was an e-mail thread
> asking whether there were volunteer resources to be able to provide
> the necessary support (testing installers, building and testing
> packages for security updates, etc.) for the 3.5 years of stable
> support.  

John is one damn good programmer, maybe he'll offer.

--lm