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FreeBSD was never big on embedded in the first place. 32 bit Linux isn't going to go away anytime soon.
by pantalaimon 3y ago
FreeBSD was never big on embedded in the first place.
32 bit Linux isn't going to go away anytime soon.
- jandrese 3y agoLots of "fatter" embedded systems run on FreeBSD due to the more favorable license situation. Not so much SOHO routers, but big industrial routers will use it. Juniper is a notable example. But also 1U firewalls, SANs, etc... are often FreeBSD based.
- pantalaimon 3y agoWell that's the tragedy of not contributing back upstream then. If there were companies actively maintaining the 32 bit port, there would be no plans of dropping it.
- linksnapzz 3y agoThe companies use what their supply chain has, which ends up being 64-bit by default. They're not building their own 32-bit CPUs.
- emaste 3y ago32-bit x86 CPUs haven't been made in years, companies building products based on FreeBSD switched to 64-bit x86 or to other architectures long ago. It's not that work on i386 is being done but kept in private repos and not upstreamed -- work on i386 just isn't being done at all.
- 0x457 3y agoThose aren't using x86 tho?