On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:20:30 +0200, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
On 25/06, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:00:13 +0200, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
On 25/06, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
However, AFAIK Ubuntu does not provide i386, even if the packages should be named like that, IIRC they only provide i486, so the time will come when even i686 is history.
Linux does not have support for i386 anymore.
I didn't know that. However, IIRC a while back there was still i386 support and while Debian did support it, Ubuntu already dropped it.
Debian dropped i386 support in Debian Sarge[0] in 2005. Ubuntu supposedly dropped[1] it in Ubuntu 10.10 which was released in 2010. That document could be seen as ambiguous though, though I can find several places referencing to it when claiming that it was dropped in 10.10
And last of all, Linux dropped i386 support in 2012.
So I was terrible mistaken :D. I "remember" to read about i386 support of Debian likely after 2005 on the Debian homepage and that time compared it with information about 32-bit architecture by the Ubuntu homepage. However, I'm seemingly mistaken :D. However, the most important information simply is, that "Linux" dropped it in 2012. Without research I believe that you information is correct and my remembrance is wrong. oops ;)