From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Macs and future unix derivatives
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 17:34:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210210013413.GR13701@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YCLcSkeMUXnpDLuT@mit.edu>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-10 1:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-08 18:11 Will Senn
2021-02-08 18:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-08 18:32 ` Justin Coffey
2021-02-08 18:39 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-09 1:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-12 13:48 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-02-08 18:42 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-09 6:55 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-09 7:05 ` Michael Huff
2021-02-16 22:55 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-09 7:17 ` Will Senn
2021-02-09 19:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-10 1:34 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-02-09 22:59 ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-08 18:43 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-02-12 13:39 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-02-08 18:45 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-02-25 22:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-08 20:07 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-09 5:10 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 7:42 ` [TUHS] QNX John Gilmore
2021-02-09 11:03 ` Robert Brockway
2021-02-09 18:24 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-09 20:18 ` Jose R Valverde via TUHS
2021-02-09 14:05 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-09 3:58 [TUHS] Macs and future unix derivatives M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-09 4:07 ` Adam Thornton
2021-02-09 4:13 ` Will Senn
2021-02-09 5:21 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 5:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-09 6:37 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 16:13 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-09 17:31 ` John Cowan
2021-02-09 19:06 ` Chet Ramey
2021-02-10 2:31 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 19:00 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-10 1:41 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 1:52 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-10 2:24 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 2:44 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-10 3:10 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 20:03 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-02-10 2:57 ` Warner Losh
2021-02-10 2:56 ` Warner Losh
2021-02-10 3:02 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 3:53 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 11:34 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-02-09 18:29 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-09 8:30 Bakul Shah
2021-02-09 12:22 M Douglas McIlroy
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