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I saw this a few days ago, nice, especially since Linux is dropping support for older hardware. Even OpenBSD is slowly limiting i386 (32bit) support: https://
by jmclnx 1y ago
I saw this a few days ago, nice, especially since Linux is dropping support for older hardware. Even OpenBSD is slowly limiting i386 (32bit) support:
https://www.openbsd.org/i386.html https://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
NetBSD so far has no plans to drop 32bit x86 support, and it is always nice to be able to run a modern UN*X on older hardware. IIRC, porting NetBSD to a new platform is quite easy when compared to other systems. This is due to how their HAL (hardware abstraction layer) is designed.
Today I saw in the OpenBSD @misc mailing list one of the issues they are having with i386 is rust is too large for them to compile on a i386 system. That means software packages that need rust are being removed from their packages.
This does not affect NetBSD because they allow cross-compiling of everything on their systems.
- anthk 1y agoOpenBSD runs perfectly fine under i386, atom user there. I don't care about Rust and it's killer app Firefox, there are tons of alternatives for i686. From Luakit to Vimb.
- johnklos 1y agoCompiling rust on a 32 bit system is a several year old issue. Enough of us made a fuss about it that the rust build system was fixed enough that this became possible again. If rust doesn't compile on an i386 system with 4 gigs of memory, then that's very odd. I don't know much about rust, but I was still able to get it to compile for earmv6hf on a Raspberry Pi 3 with 1 gig of RAM. Perhaps the OpenBSD people need to try some of the things we've already figured out. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2025/05/09/msg031137.html https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2025/05/09/msg031137....
- makz 1y agoCannot find the mail in @misc you are talking about
- jmclnx 1y agoHere it is https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174696055709421&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174696055709421&w=2