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« Last post by rankett on Sun Nov 24 14:26:31 2024 »
I was user of NuTyx saravane about 15 years ago... it was an elegant distribution mainly for i386 where the user did have the possibility to build a lot or all itself. now, ab. 15 years later, the same user having that old hardware will probably soon MUST to do exactly that oder to abandonate Linux because of not any more accessible software. Perhaps he will go back to Windows XP using its clone reactOS... Or he will finally scrap his old computer (an environmental sin if it still works well), if he has the money or uses something different like the numerous cheap tabletts having the good Batard of Linux, Android of Google with probably all actually required security figures, because with old versions of Linux you get more and more problems to participate (else in 64 bits! You can't accede to the official KDE forum with only the poor actual Konqueror, it is really ridiculous allthough if the actual Konqueror is an actual developement!). These fact has a (perverse) name: PROGRESS! ?Whether the users import us, they become less numerous every day?. Yes, certainly, but they are still millions (or maybe even billions, because many old equipment end in poor countries or even what is old is always better than nothing! And even in our rich countries, during Corona, there were not enough PCS to transpose teaching on PC when the classrooms were closed: we also miss Europe, we also miss the USA of PCS so that everyone has access to it . Actually, I write those lines on a i7 4 cores 8Gb 1 Tb. But in 2 hours, I am in my sport room where the last laptop of my father runs; it is a poor old AMD64, officially 2 Gb (but the really value is not so high!) 80 Gb, and tomorrow, in my workshop it is a Dell Book-PC with Celeron and 1/2 Tb that I will found there because all the very old drawing of my house and after then a lot of drawings and technical documentations are there with an old Wine version, enough to continue to propulsate an 30 y. Windows95 CAD-application (not willing to work on all wine versions... I am happy I did find the one!). So I finally use Linux 32 bits on all my PC as Celeron would never be usable for Linux 64 bits and it is difficult enough to realize a one man show to be able to use the same software on all PCs and don't to make some error destructing some data... But I also use 32 bit Linux to be united with the poor people having no choice: it must be an old PC or no PC as no money! In the last days, France T?l?vision did report about the numerous French families where children don't get enough to eat more than only one time a day: It is not in the past - it was this week! It was exactly the same at the Corona time! And did decide to use i386 as long as possible as sign of solidarity with those poor people. Thank to emmabunt?s having preserve the i386 version until now. But as Debian kill now the i386 Debian version, what happens now? Can we build our i386 system with LFS/BLFS as in the time of saravane ourself as NuTyx allready doesn't any more in it's binaries store something else than full 64 software (full = large requirements?)
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