My 2 cents - sorry to flog a dead horse

We support obsolete CPU's (IBM mainframes, Power PC, ARM (raspberry PI)) - do we even have enough users of these platforms to justify that development?

Why would we stop supporting working x86-64 machines that have enough cpu and disk to be useful. I think that any machine that supports SATA 3 drives should still be supported until SATA drives are no longer made.

I still think that the answer is a repo for v1 and one for v4 builds - give those that want the new hardware a proper speedup and keep those that are fine as it is a choice.

Leave the non-v2 to v4 machines a life. I hate to have to migrate all ny friends with old machines to versions that want to keep old hardware working like sparky linux or mint linux.

Quit being like Microsoft and want people to buy new hardware for features 99% of users will never use.

I keep having to tell Windows users that I cannot recover their pictures from dead hardware without the bitlocker password for the drive I removed. Few if any Windows 10 or 11 ever make the USB device with the bitlocker recovery key.

I too, have virtual machines with most flavors of linux - Fedora, Sparky, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Mint, Kali, Pi OS as well as Windows 95, XP,, 10, 11 currently running and a few images that have been retired (NT 3.1, 4, 2000, 2003 server, 2006 server).

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From: Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.de>
To: factory@lists.opensuse.org
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 08:13:11 +0200
Subject: Re: x86-64-v2: oggenc, zstd

 

> Yes, systems mainly doing heavy work will be upgraded when faster
> hardware and budget is available. But the former high performance
> systems remain suitable for doing ordinary work for long time.
Yes. But the question remains on how many of those you plan
to run tumbleweed on.

Greetings, Stephan

 Stephan:

As posted previously, I'm running TW and a number of Gecko Rolling, and Debian Sid, and Manjaro, along with Lubuntu developmental . . . on a '12 cMP using a Xeon i7 processor of that era . . . .  The plan is to run it until a number of parts blow up.  I'm also running Leap 15.5 on an '09 MBP using Core2Duo processor, perfectly competent for daily driver.

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