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As an owner of two i386 systems (both netbooks built around Intel's Atom N270), that run Debian, I am a little sad. I understand the reasoning, and I won't deny
by krylon 1y ago
As an owner of two i386 systems (both netbooks built around Intel's Atom N270), that run Debian, I am a little sad. I understand the reasoning, and I won't deny it is a very niche platform by now. But I had hoped Debian, with a history of supporting a wide range of platforms, would keep i386 going for a while longer.
Fortunately, bookworm will continue to receive updates for almost 3 years, so I am not in a hurry to look for a new OS for these relics. OpenBSD looks like the natural successor, but I am not sure if the wifi chips are supported. (And who knows how long these netbooks will continue to work, they were built in 2008 and 2009, so they've had a long life already.)
EDIT: Hooray, thanks to everyone who made this possible, is what I meant to say.
- dschuessler 1y agoOut of curiosity, what do you use these netbooks for?
- krylon 1y agoOne sits in my bathroom so I can browse random Wikipedia articles while I'm, uh, busy. The other one sits on my nightstand and plays audiobooks/podcasts when I'm going to sleep. So nothing critical. But something they are still good at, and being very small makes them a natural fit for these use cases.
- thiht 1y agoCurious, why not use your phone for both these use cases? Seems like it would be even more convenient
- CogitoCogito 1y agoI can't speak for the other poster, but I like the idea a lot. Having tools with specific purposes means I can avoid using my phone for everything. No matter what games I play to remove notifications/interruptions/etc. it's always a distraction and easy to be distracted from whatever I originally intended to use the phone for.
- krylon 1y agoI do use the phone for audible, but I started both uses before I had a smart phone (I was very late to the game), and I am a creature of habit. Plus the netbook has a bigger display, more storage, and a real keyboard (again, creature of habit).
- homebrewer 1y agoAlpine supports i686, I see no current deprecation plans. This may change in the next three years though, who knows.
- anthk 1y agoOpenBSD runs perfectly fine. Atom netbook, n270, 1GB of RAM, cwm+git dillo (plus DPI plugins), mpv+yt-dlp. My ~/.config/mpv/config: #inicio ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?480][fps<=?30]+bestaudio/best vo=gl audio-pitch-correction=no quiet=yes pause=no vd-lavc-skiploopfilter=all demuxer-cache-wait=yes demuxer-max-bytes=4MiB #fin My ~/yt-dlp.conf #inicio de fichero --format=bestvideo[height<=?480][fps<=?30]+bestaudio/best #fin de fichero For the rest, I use streamlink from virtualenv (I do the same with yt-dlp) with a wrapper at $HOME/bin: yt-dlp wrapper #!/bin/sh . $HOME/src/yt-dlp/bin/activate $HOME/src/yt-dlp/bin/yt-dlp "$@" streamlink wrapper #!/bin/sh . $HOME/src/streamlink/bin/activate $HOME/src/streamlink/bin/yt-dlp "$@" To install streamlink mkdir -p ~/src/streamlink cd ~/src/streamlink virtualenv . . bin/activate pip3 install -U streamlink The same with yt-dlp: mkdir -p ~/src/yt-dlp cd ~/src/yt-dlp virtualenv . . bin/activate pip3 install -U yt-dlp On the rest, I use mutt+msmtp+mbsync, slrn, sfeed, lynx/links, mocp, mupdf for PDF/CBZ/EPUB, nsxiv for images, tut for Mastodon and Emacs just for Telegram (I installed tdlib from OpenBSD packages and then I installed Telega from MELPA). Overall it's a really fast machine. CWM+XTerm+Tmux it's my main environment. I have some SSH connection open to somewhere else at the 3rd tag (virtual desktop), and the 2nd one for Dillo.
- krylon 1y agoThank you very much!
- UncleSlacky 1y agoantiX will be creating a Trixie-based 32-bit ISO. There's also Void, Alpine and Slackware (at least).