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krylon • last Saturday at 8:24 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

As an owner of two i386 systems (both netbooks built around Intel's Atom N270), that run Debian, I am a little sad. I understand the reasoning, and I won't deny it is a very niche platform by now. But I had hoped Debian, with a history of supporting a wide range of platforms, would keep i386 going for a while longer.

Fortunately, bookworm will continue to receive updates for almost 3 years, so I am not in a hurry to look for a new OS for these relics. OpenBSD looks like the natural successor, but I am not sure if the wifi chips are supported. (And who knows how long these netbooks will continue to work, they were built in 2008 and 2009, so they've had a long life already.)

EDIT: Hooray, thanks to everyone who made this possible, is what I meant to say.

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anthk • last Sunday at 7:06 AM

OpenBSD runs perfectly fine. Atom netbook, n270, 1GB of RAM, cwm+git dillo (plus DPI plugins), mpv+yt-dlp.

My ~/.config/mpv/config:

    #inicio

    ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?480][fps<=?30]+bestaudio/best

    vo=gl

    audio-pitch-correction=no

    quiet=yes

    pause=no

    vd-lavc-skiploopfilter=all

    demuxer-cache-wait=yes

    demuxer-max-bytes=4MiB

    #fin
My ~/yt-dlp.conf

    #inicio de fichero
    
    --format=bestvideo[height<=?480][fps<=?30]+bestaudio/best
    
    #fin de fichero
For the rest, I use streamlink from virtualenv (I do the same with yt-dlp) with a wrapper at $HOME/bin:

yt-dlp wrapper

    #!/bin/sh
 
    . $HOME/src/yt-dlp/bin/activate
    
    $HOME/src/yt-dlp/bin/yt-dlp "$@"
streamlink wrapper

    #!/bin/sh
    
   . $HOME/src/streamlink/bin/activate
   
    $HOME/src/streamlink/bin/yt-dlp "$@"
To install streamlink

       mkdir -p ~/src/streamlink

       cd ~/src/streamlink

       virtualenv .

       . bin/activate

       pip3 install -U streamlink
The same with yt-dlp:

      mkdir -p ~/src/yt-dlp

      cd ~/src/yt-dlp

       virtualenv .

      . bin/activate

      pip3 install -U yt-dlp
On the rest, I use mutt+msmtp+mbsync, slrn, sfeed, lynx/links, mocp, mupdf for PDF/CBZ/EPUB, nsxiv for images, tut for Mastodon and Emacs just for Telegram (I installed tdlib from OpenBSD packages and then I installed Telega from MELPA).

Overall it's a really fast machine. CWM+XTerm+Tmux it's my main environment. I have some SSH connection open to somewhere else at the 3rd tag (virtual desktop), and the 2nd one for Dillo.

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homebrewer • last Saturday at 10:41 PM

Alpine supports i686, I see no current deprecation plans. This may change in the next three years though, who knows.

dschuessler • last Saturday at 8:29 PM

Out of curiosity, what do you use these netbooks for?

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UncleSlacky • last Sunday at 12:42 PM

antiX will be creating a Trixie-based 32-bit ISO. There's also Void, Alpine and Slackware (at least).