Debian developer and Linux kernel maintainer Ben Hutchings announced this past weekend that the project is dropping support for older 32-bit hardware architectures in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.
The decision to drop support for i586 and hybrid i586/i686 processors in the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 “Stretch” operating system, which is now in heavy development, known as Debian Testing, was taken last year, because of recent GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) releases, which only target i686-class processors.
“In case you missed that change, gcc for i386 has recently been changed to target 686-class processors and is generating code that will crash on other processors. Any such systems still running testing or unstable will need to be switched to run stable (Jessie),” said Ben Hutchings in the announcement.
The change has already been implemented to the Linux k… (read more)
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