Hi All, As the impending death of 32-bit support for openSUSE is coming sometime between November 2016 (EoL of Evergreen 13.1) and early 2017 (Expected End of Life of openSUSE 13.2) I wanted to address some concerns surrounding the move to 64-bit I guess the easiest way of tackling this is by addressing the 'Myths' directly 64-bit hardware is not expensive Brand New, fully featured, Intel 64-bit hardware like the Intel Compute Stick can be purchased for $85 (US Dollars) It comes with 1GB RAM, 8GB Storage, can plug into any screen with a HDMI port and is powered by USB The 'Windows' Model only costs $10 more and provides double the RAM and 4x the storage There are many Intel NUC desktop boxes which start at prices around $124 and stay under $200 until you start getting to some of the fancier models. (though you may need to add a hard drive or RAM as most NUCs are sold 'barebones') These are perfect sufficient machines for replacing whatever 32-bit use cases you may have. In the case of the Intel NUC, Intel even go as far as saying that openSUSE is officially supported! :) These machines are still going to be many times faster than whatever old 32-bit hardware is still lurking out there. While I understand ANY money might be 'too much' for some, I do think that it's important to make clear that 64-bit hardware is really not that expensive. 64-bit hardware, even (or especially) the cheap examples I suggest above, benefit from years of laptop and data centre hardware development. They're smaller, lighter, quieter (important if you're running this at home) and more power efficient. I've even seen some maths that suggest that in some cases buying a NUC or a Compute Stick might even pay for itself compared to a 32-bit machine on the power consumption factor alone. So, 64-bit is faster It's better for your power bill and the environment It's quieter in your house or data centre It's not terribly expensive to buy It's also a heck of a lot cheaper for everyone in the openSUSE community to support as it's far more common than 32-bit hardware these days and therefore a lot more of us are likely to have the hardware you need to reproduce issues In short, if you're clinging on to your 32-bit machines for dear life and are thinking the world will end with the End of Life of Evergreen or openSUSE 13.2, please consider a hardware refresh.. There's lots of benefits for the little investment it may cost you.. Regards, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org