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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by einpoklum on Saturday November 01, 2025 @06:08AM (#45780513)
It is not retro-computing. New 32-bit and x86 CPUs are produced, sold, and used today.

See (relatively recent) list of manfuacturers here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_x86_manufacturers

and scroll down for other categories of x86 chip manufacturers. These have plenty of uses. Maybe in another 30 years' time they will mostly be a hobby, but we are very far from that time.

Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by nikanj on Saturday November 01, 2025 @06:52AM (#45780689)
Which ones of those don’t have MMX / SSE? Debian is not enabling any x86 instruction extensions that didn’t ship on the Pentium Pro
Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by zozbot234 on Saturday November 01, 2025 @06:57AM (#45780725)
This is not accurate, the Trixie 32-bit release requires a Pentium 4.