Am Freitag, 28. August 2015, 23:49:33 schrieb Felix Miata:
Michal Kubecek composed on 2015-08-28 17:38 (UTC+0200):
Larry Finger wrote:
As much of the world cannot afford the latest shiny boxes, that will take a while.
People, please... Some of these "latest shiny boxes" you are talking about are over 10 years old. They do not shine at all and a lot of them has been discarded since years ago. OK, I don't deny there are still people using 32-bit hardware (even if I'm very sceptical about number of those) but calling 64-bit machines in general "latest shiny boxes"? Seriously?
Not everyone who needs a PC gets to buy or even choose one. If it's new to them, it's new, and maybe shiny as well. What they can much more likely choose is the FOSS they put on what they do have. Whichever major distro is the first to drop 32 bit becomes to those people the distro for the elite.
... Red Hat Enterprise Linux has dropped x86 32bit support with the release of RHEL7, and I wouldn't be too surprised if the RHEL7-Descendants (CentOS, Scientific Linux) followed suit. Cheers MH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org