Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?

On 2024-07-07, yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> writes:
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I thought they were continuing X86 support for Debian 13.

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A while I read something about dropping X86 without a concrete date in
some mini-debconf notes.  There may be decisions now about the date, but
I just do not care any more about it.  Alea iacta est.
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Being a Debian user since it's pre-releases without even toy-story
names, that really hurts, but my way forward only can mean leaving
De(bi|vu)an.
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I see this
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/19/debian_to_drop_x86_32/

But the Debian release notes state
https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/release-notes/whats-new.en.html#supported-architectures

The following are the officially supported architectures for Debian 13:
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   32-bit PC (i386) and 64-bit PC (amd64)
   64-bit ARM (arm64)
   ARM EABI (armel)
   ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, armhf)
   little-endian MIPS (mipsel)
   64-bit little-endian MIPS (mips64el)
   64-bit little-endian PowerPC (ppc64el)
   IBM System z (s390x)
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Baseline bump for 32-bit PC to i686
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   The 32-bit PC support (known as the Debian architecture i386) now requires the "long NOP" instruction. Please refer to Baseline for 32-bit PC is now i686 for more information.

The release notes are also dated 2023, so I'm not sure whether The
Register article superceded the release notes or not.