On Monday, September 07, 2015 08:20:17 AM Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Saturday 05 of September 2015 00:27:23 Per Jessen wrote:
Well, given that openSUSE appears to be planning to abandon all "current i586 openSUSE users"
That's only your (mis)interpretation of what is happening. OpenSUSE is not planning to abandon all "current i586 openSUSE users". Only those who insist on staying with 32-bit distribution so strongly that they would rather change the distribution than upgrade to a 64-bit system.
I believe most current i586 openSUSE users do not use this architecture out of necessity. There may be some, sure, but IMHO it's just a small fraction; some (like you) do it for their beliefs but most of them only because of inertia and lack of an impulse strong enough to push them into migration. For those, switching to x86_64 may be an inconvenience - and we should do our best to it as small one as we can - but much less of inconvenience that moving to a different distribution. And they should also consider that others are probably going to do the same, sooner or later (some already declared so).
In other words: I don't believe majority of current i586 openSUSE users would switch to a different distribution just because of the lack of an i586 Leap release. Not by far.
Michal Kubeček
Can only speak for myself in this very long discussion. I always detested the Microsoftisch way of commerce that implicated that if you do not get the latest of hardware you are out of using our Microsoft-ware. Reason for me to abandon that company since windows 3.1.1 At home I have now two 586 computers and one 64 bit system (max. memory 2GB). Loosing the use of openSUSE for two thirds of my computers is not an idea I can befriended with. Hope that list-members who find them self in a similar situation will speak up. Assume that a broader discussion should start as the factory list is most probably not read by every SUSE enthusiast. Just try to find out how big the group of 586 owners is. . . -- Linux User 183145 using KDE4 and LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 20150903 (x86_64) Kernel: 4.1.6-2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.14.10 13:28pm up 4 days 3:34, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.31, 0.45 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org