On 10/21/2013 10:56 AM, Cor Blom wrote:
Good questions!
We have a 10 year old computer for the children with some kind of AMD Sempron CPU that does not support sse2. The only trouble I have run into (on openSUSE 12.3) is that adobe flash for some years need sse2 to be present, so I need to install some ancient version of flash.
I have two machines with PCMCIA hardware that I use to make sure that bitrot is not affecting that hardware. One is a Mac PowerBook G4 and it is outside this discussion; however, the other is a laptop from ~2000 with an AMD K5 CPU. This one requires i586, and I would be very unhappy if support for that architecture were dropped. I am resigned to the fact that the only ISO that will ever work on that machine is the NET install, and that I have to be careful that every new release of gcc has not screwed up the CPU capabilities for the K5. Despite these problems, I do wish to keep that machine running to test new kernels. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org