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The point is that it has now passed i386 as the most popular architecture (at least for Debian squeeze installations as measured by popcon). Certainly it was in
by anonymouz 14y ago
The point is that it has now passed i386 as the most popular architecture (at least for Debian squeeze installations as measured by popcon). Certainly it was inevitable and expected, but it's still noteworthy that it happened now.
- mrich 14y agoI didn't expect it to take that long. Then again, there are probably many small hobbyist servers running debian.
- VLM 14y agoGenerally with Debian you only install once per machine, as upgrade always works. Its not like other distros where you pretty much have to wipe the drive and restore from backup, or OS like windows where a new MB requires so many new drivers you may as well wipe and replace. So any Debian box commissioned before 2007 or so will semi-eternally run i386, even if upgraded multiple times since then. Multi-arch is supposed to fix that. I bit the bullet and wipe/install upgraded my home server circa 2009 but I've got plenty of new machines still stuck on i386.