Debian preps ground to drop 32-bit x86 as a separate edition
There is a bit of internal project jargon here which we suspect bears clarifying. First, i386 is the Debian project's term for x86-32. This doesn't mean the actual 80386 from the 1980s: the Linux kernel dropped support for that way back in 2012. Most OS projects now talk about i686, which is generally taken to mean 32-bit Intel chips from the original Pentium Pro or Pentium II onward.