Hello, Am Dienstag, 30. Juni 2015 schrieb Cristian Rodríguez:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
There are probably thousand or millions of server type machine in the home or small business world still using 32 bit hardware.
Then think about it.. why would SUSE (and Redhat too!!) do not sell new products to target this supposedly massive server market? that should ring a few alarms... I have no idea how they really reach that conclusion,. but I 'm pretty sure they have smart people around.. and can make a wild guess..: .there is no such a big demand to economically justify the effort. ..and this means.. oh,oh..there is no profit motive to maintain this architecture in the two leading commercial distributors..and they employ most people to work on this!..ouch..
Please do not mix up commercial with community distributions. I'm quite sure that companies who invest money on a commercial linux distribution like SLE{S,D} (because they need support etc.) also have enough money to buy a new server - and typical companies [1] often buy "too big" servers instead of what they really need ;-) Therefore it's understandable that SUSE doesn't sell a 32 bit SLE{S,D} - companies usually don't re-use old hardware. OTOH, lots of home users have an old computer (and less money than companies) - and it would be a pity if they had to throw those old computers away instead of using them for something useful [2]. Regards, Christian Boltz [1] at least the not-too-big companies with, let's say, 2 to 30 servers. You'll get different results when you look at the Google datacenter ;-) [2] Just as an example - I still have an old Pentium next to my desk. It's setup as a scan server because I can't connect the scanner directly to my laptop. (Hint: the scanner is even older and is connected to the parallel port ;-) - but still works.) -- These are the requirements for granted correct behavior. If you are not interested in that, I am happy to provide you with a list of data that could be removed from a general Suse installation to let Suse Linux behave similar and to permit booting from time to time only. [Jörg Schiling in https://bugzilla.novell.com/550021#c32] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org