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[–] lisko@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Other distros did this a long time ago

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] lisko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours 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 1 points 10 hours ago

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