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Re: Debian Stretch ToriOS

 

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On 04/18/2018 08:07 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
>
>
> Stretch also supports both PAE and non PAE.  They dropped support for i586
> so some of the older processor features do not work anymore, but most of
> those features are in processors that are extremely old
>
>
> ToriOS is for old machines and I mean very old. Using the most recent and
> the latest version of Debian is - IMHO - not good idea at all.
>
> I see no reason why we should use Debian 9 instead of 8, at least now?!
> By now, I mean for ToriOS 2.0!
>
>
>
>> Hi Ali,
>

Hi,



>
> Debian Jessie is now in support mode only, so it will only get security
> updates for the major things, so moving to support Stretch now is a good
> idea for us.  Most people can use Stretch on their hardware.
>
> For clarification, 586 Pentium or earlier is not supported.  This is fine
> for current usage.  We can keep supporting Debian Jessie based ToriOS 1.X
> branch and the Debian Stretch based ToriOS 2.X branch
>
> Here are the current details about the supported architecture:
>
> As per: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en
> 2.1.2.1. CPU
>
> Nearly all x86-based (IA-32) processors still in use in personal computers
> are supported. This also includes 32-bit AMD and VIA (former Cyrix)
> processors, and processors like the Athlon XP and Intel P4 Xeon.
>
> However, Debian GNU/Linux stretch will *not* run on 586 (Pentium) or
> earlier processors.
> [image: [Note]] Note
>
> If your system has a 64-bit processor from the AMD64 or Intel 64 families,
> you will probably want to use the installer for the amd64 architecture
> instead of the installer for the (32-bit) i386 architecture.
>
> --
> Regards
>
>
Have we asked our users?!


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Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>

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