The future of 32-bit Linux

Posted Dec 6, 2020 17:18 UTC (Sun) by amacater (subscriber, #790)
In reply to: The future of 32-bit Linux by luto
Parent article: The future of 32-bit Linux

2016: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/05/ms... refers - from Ben Hutchings. I think it was the fact that gcc was moving to target newer processors. I know it caused anguish amongst some of the folks with firewalls running the lowest powered processors at the time.

The future of 32-bit Linux

Posted Jan 1, 2021 10:44 UTC (Fri) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) [Link]

On the other hand, home firewalls are often drop-in boxes that don't really need to follow upgrades when there is zero exposed service running on them. Mine runs on a 2002-era VIA-Eden i586-like CPU with a 2.4 kernel last built in 2010... it will eventually be replaced but migrating rules is a pain when everything works fine out of the box. I'll probably wait for the hardware to die.