On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 06:50:19AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > you might probably want to have a look at: > > > > http://popcon.devuan.org/ > > > > Whatever the statistical significance of those data, it seems that > > between 15% and 20% of Devuan installations are on i386. So apparently > > there is no reason at all to drop it, rather the opposite. > > Then this looks like a problem that needs to be looked at. There's no way > that many people use gear from ≤ 2004 (or a brief throwback of early Atoms > from 2008).
THere's at least one. My laptop runs an Atom processor. It was the first EEEPC that was completely Linux-compatible without requiring any nonfree drivers, and came out anout a year after the first EEEPC. Until it came on the market, I was looking with dismay at all the hugely expensive, overpowered, battery draining machines on the market. Years later, I can still go to a coffee chop for an afternoon's writing without needing to bring along a power supply. It is still performing well. In fact, for some things (videoo codecs coe to mind) it runs a lot better now than it did when I bought it) Google has abandoned it, but I haven't, and Linux hasn't either. I have upgraded the RAM from 1 to 2 G, and replaced the hard drive with a much bigger one. It's running fine, and hasn't needed repairs. By contrast, my 64-bit server is on its last legs. All of these machines are old enough not to have malware built into the hardware, as far as I can tell. I'm not looking forward to having to upgrade to hardwar containing malware. Please help keep 32-bit architecture alive. I've been running Devuan since the alpha-2 release. -- hendrik > > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ A dumb species has no way to open a tuna can. > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ A smart species invents a can opener. > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ A master species delegates. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
