On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 03:16:41AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Michal Kubecek composed on 2015-08-28 08:48 (UTC+0200):
I'm afraid discontinuing i586 would be something I would call acknowledging the state of things and stopping pretending rather than some big and groundbreaking step.
Last I checked every distrowatch listing above openSUSE still provided a 32 bit version, and IIRC, it was necessary to drop below the top 10 to find one that didn't. Fedora still calls its 386.
They may call it so but as 386 CPU support in mainline kernel was dropped in December 2012, I seriously doubt they make the effort to keep maintaining all the hacks needed to actually run on 386. Btw, out of curiosity, I checked other major distributions. Ubuntu plans to phase out 32-bit after their 16.04 release (April 2016) (not definitive yet) and Fedora already had a proposal to drop 32-bit starting with Fedora 23 (October 2015) or 24 but they did chicken out for now. So I guess it's much less blasphemy than it looks at the first glance. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org