On 02/08/17 22:45, Richard Biener wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Mari Donkers wrote:
To quote https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime : "openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release which has a lifetime of 'forever', assuming you are running the latest updated packages."
What is the roadmap concerning Tumbleweed for Intel 32-bit (i586) architecture? Will it supported into the dim and distant future?
Or will it maybe turn into a repository providing multilib stuff for x86_64 only? A first step would be to raise the minimum architecture level to that of x86_64, a second step would be to drop support for running a 32bit kernel (but still allow to install a full 32bit userland).
How many people really care for running _Tumbleweed_ on ancient (<= i586) hardware?
Richard.
Well a openSUSE way of looking at it is, while it works and it passes QA there is no point in dropping it. Once it stops working, if no one steps into fix it (like what happened with Leap) then there is very good reason to drop it. I appreciate this answer doesn't really help with any form of a timeline and I imagine the subset of people willing to fix and support i586 apps running on x86_64 is much larger then the subset who want to run on i586 hardware. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B