On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> wrote:
Obviously, if they tell community members to go use something else, the contribution of those members go somewhere else, too...
I am not telling people to go somewhere else, what I am suggesting is to concentrate the limited existing resources in the x86_64 port instead.
And technically, tumbleweed has a full 32 bit repo:
<http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/i586/>
Why has oS:42 got to drop i586?
OS:42 is an SLE12 remix.. which is not sold for 32 bit x86.
There are probably thousand or millions of server type machine in the home or small business world still using 32 bit hardware.
Then think about it.. why would SUSE (and Redhat too!!) do not sell new products to target this supposedly massive server market? that should ring a few alarms... I have no idea how they really reach that conclusion,. but I 'm pretty sure they have smart people around.. and can make a wild guess..: .there is no such a big demand to economically justify the effort. ..and this means.. oh,oh..there is no profit motive to maintain this architecture in the two leading commercial distributors..and they employ most people to work on this!..ouch.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org