Why I have to keep i386
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As you may know  I don't use x86 if it is not  necessary. My PDA is the
m68k, my desktop  was the MIPS and  now it has the POWER.  But I always
have had to at least one x86-compatible  box. For a long time it was my
Toshiba 110CT laptop  then there ware other boxes and  now it's the GPD
Pocket.

Why? Because there is always something that is x86-only. Ant such issue
is often work-related. Mt university have been requiring VPN for access
from  outside. In  the past  the "vpnc"  client worked  well (the  only
problem was that  it was not supported  on the IRIX). But now  - when I
have a  workstation that  can run  this thing  directly -  they changed
their  setup and  it  no  longer works.  An  official  Cisco client  is
required now.  Someone told  me that  it is  written in  Java so  it is
multi-platform.

No, it isn't.  The Linux installer includes i386-only  binary. It don't
run on my ppc64le (the POWER9, that is) machine, of course.

So I have to use my GPD Pocked  (which has that damn Atom CPU - a snail
trapped in a silicon slab) to connect there...

Actually, the inability to  run closed-source "security" software might
be a feature which makes my desktop more secure... :-)