News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tails 3.0 Released. Parent comment

Re:Tails 3.0 Released by mrmondo on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @09:18PM (#14550077)
I can't honestly say I've seen a 32bit computer in what must be nearly a decade now?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tails 3.0 Released by stevekemp on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @10:38PM (#14550336)
A lot of hosting companies run KVM/qemu/Xen or even UML with 32-bit guests by default. But yeah in terms of physical computers 64-bit has long been the default.

I remember upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit in-place a few times, which is a bit fiddly but not impossible with Debian. I wrote up a couple of guides once upon a time, but right now I can just find this old wiki-page discussing the process:

https://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tails 3.0 Released by Tepix on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @09:58AM (#14552722)
Sure but cheap Intel Atom N270 netbooks are probably still being used in poor countries even though they were released around 2008/2009.
[ Parent | on HN ]