On Friday 28 of August 2015 02:42:56 Felix Miata wrote:
Ondřej Súkup composed on 2015-08-28 08:25 (UTC+0200):
all 32bit consumer CPU are behind moral and physical service life .
Morals must be different in your country than in mine. There's no moral or physical reason here to junk a PC just because it's 5 years old. My newest of many functioning test PCs running openSUSE was manufactured ~6 years ago. The motherboard I'm typing this with is about 7-8 years old.
And I'm just going to reuse a motherboard/CPU I bought around 2006. My wife's machine has CPU I bought in 2005. Guess what... both are 64-bit. Even most of 5-8 year old machines are actually 64-bit. You would have to either carefully pick or dig even deeper (10+ years) to get hardware which is really 32-bit. And that's the point: most of those still running i586 distributions do run them on 64-bit capable hardware - because they believe (a) they don't need x86_64 unless they have >4GB of memory (b) it consumes less memory (c) it consumes less disk space In reality, x86_64 has a lot of advantages even without 4GB of memory, the memory footprint difference is (except specially crafted examples) not worth the hassle and the disk usage argument doesn't even deserve a comment. Sure, there is still some ancient 32-bit hardware around. But should we dedicate our limited resources to supporting it for years to come? I'm not sure it's worth the effort. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org