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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Other distros did this a long time ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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