[PLUG] Preparing to update OS

[Russell Senior]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 4:49 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett at access.net> wrote:
>
> I've 3 laptops and and a desktop with various releases/flavors of Debian.
>
> Which Debians do I wish to download.
>
> One laptop is easy as it's 32 bit i386 (yes i386 Debian near EOL).
> For one laptop lscpu reports architecture as "x86_64"
> For one laptop and the desktop it reports "i686".

You probably are due to download some new (at least, to you) machines. ;-)

I just booted a 32-bit lenovo laptop, a T42, running a 18.04 xubuntu,
so maybe I shouldn't be throwing even light-hearted stones. Seriously
though, used decent less-then-10 year old 64-bit machines are not
expensive.

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Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net