On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> wrote:
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 02:06:20PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Well, I am not convinced about this. Especially that SLE no longer has an x86 implementation.
I'm going to say something that will be very unpopular but I feel it really needs to be said. Should we really care so much about i586? I don't have any 32-bit system since something like 2008, I definitely haven't seen any 32-bit x86 CPU in usual e-shops for at least 5 years and I'm not sure I would be able to buy one today if I tried hard.
I think I have 2 valid use cases for 32-bit: - Booting random PCs I carry openSUSE Live Images made via susestudio with me at all times on my job. Sometimes I have to work with clients very old machines, but other times they are very new. I almost always boot them into openSUSE to work with them. 32-bit boot media has served me well with both situations. - VMs I have numerous VMs on my computer. It is my impression they are smaller with 32-bit. Also, I think the free version of VMware only supports 32-bit Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org