26 Sep
2024
26 Sep
'24
9:20 p.m.
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 09:49:59PM +0100, Ian via BitFolk Users wrote:
Binaries yes - I suspect they saw what happened when
Ubuntu proposed
dropping all of those and people pointed out that quite a lot of users
still need some to use Steam / WINE if nothing else
Employees of Valve have been doing a lot of work to keep i386 userland
working (under amd64), because not many other devs really care.
After 2038 if there are any of these binaries left they are going to
have to start being lied to about the date, due to the 32-bit time_t
epochalypse, but games probably don't care that the date is wrong.
but that will be useless for the 32-bit only
Atom-based netbooks
without the kernel.
The owners of these devices may care but there isn't a development
community and at this point in my opinion the i386 Linux kernel is
probably too insecure to use on the Internet.
Thanks,
Andy
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