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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well yeah, isn't long term support and stability Debian's whole thing?

[–] lisko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My brother in Linux, the first i686 Pentium was released in 1995. By long term support, you mean more than 30 years? :o

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

No I meant that it's reasonable for Debian to have waited a while even though other distros have already dropped support