On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 at 13:32, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > > In contemplating bulk builds and resources, I wonder if there are still > people who: > > are running NetBSD/i386 (as opposed to amd64) > > are using the binary packges from quarterly branches on ftp.netbsd.org > > are running NetBSD 10 already, or who intend to move to it soon or > after release > > If you have a system that meets the above, please either reply here (the > first few people :-) or just answer me privately. (I'd also be > interested in which category below your use is.) > > Basically, I would think about not doing bulk builds if very few want > them, relative to the effort/resources required to create them. > > My guess is that at this point, i386 use is limited to > > a) old embedded-type systems (soekris) > b) systems that are running i386 because they were first installed many > years ago and haven't been converted to amd64 for no good reason or > for some odd special case odd reason > c) build systems to support category a/b systems, for testing or > building private binary package sets > d) retrocomputing
I have a mixed set of pc-engine alix (32 bit) & apu2 (64 bit) devices in service, for which we use a common 32 bit image, based on a customised netbsd-9.3 install with packages via pkgin. I'm definitely planning on moving these to netbsd-10 to open up the option of switching from openvpn to wireguard, and now the openssl pullup is complete I might well start testing on that before the netbsd-10 release. I also think there are a potentially interesting (if small) set of people who would like a desktop with minimal web browser on an older 32bit x86 system, and NetBSD + ArcticFox pretty much delivers on that David
