It'll hit the embedded world pretty hard. Today you can buy a brand new soekris box that only runs i586. Brand new off the shelf, today. My 6 or 7 year old one is running right now as an asterisk server at home. Draws about 5 watts. Its not exactly the newest piece of hardware they sell but its still available as an embedded / embeddable device. It draws about twice the power of a rasp-pi, a good solid one amp at 12 volts.
Its kinda sad because two years ago there were threads on the soekris boards about having to move from Ubuntu to Debian when i586 was dropped by Ubuntu and now they'll have to move AGAIN just two years later to ... something. Its not like I'm going to throw out a working PBX because of some OS foolishness. I'll move mine to netbsd or whatever else runs on a i586. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.soekris.technical/18358 The root cause of the problem is the Debian/Ubuntu ecosystem is moving away from the "universal OS" mantra and toward being a GNOME bootloader for tablets and everything else can just go away. Thats the war... abandonment of entire industry sectors or weird init decisions are merely a small battle, the war is the move toward turning the OS into a GNOME bootloader for tablets. Note that soekris used to sell embedded low power 486 boards until semi-recently. I actually used one as a firewall until I needed more horsepower for some tasks. Excellent hardware BTW. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng