On 10 September 2015 at 13:32, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
The money numbers don't agree with your assessment, when one is on a tight budget.
In which case, you're reliant on the charity of others. And at this point, I'd like to point that openSUSE has never made any promises, statements, or suggestions, regarding a desire or capability to support hardware for lifespans anything like 10 years and I don't know of any Free, Support, Community distribution that does make any such kind of promises There is a rather large disconnect between that kind of expectation and the reality of openSUSE, which until recently supported releases for no longer than 18 months, and each new version made no promises regarding its ability to support the identical hardware to the earlier versions. It is only with Leap expanding that to a situation where a Major version of openSUSE should be supported for 36 months (admittedly with annual minor releases to freshen up software and add hardware support) And so, if you're the kind of person who buys a computer and expects it to work for 10 years, I suggest you either re-evaluate your choice of distribution or operating system, or, preferably, reconsider your expectations and adjust them accordingly Of course, openSUSE wants to support a very broad array of hardware and hardware ages, but to repeat my points from earlier emails, ultimately, as a community of volunteers we're going to support what is interest and relevance to us. And as far as I can see currently, that doesn't include 32-bit anymore. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org