Re: [opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed 32-bit support lifetime
Ok cool, thanks much :) I've got some old hardware that I'm trying to keep alive because it works perfectly well as my server at home (it's old, but quite energy efficient,) so I'm just seeing how much longer I can keep it going :) From: Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar <dimstar@opensuse.org> Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 2:45:06 PM To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed 32-bit support lifetime On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 19:20 +0000, Christopher Myers wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but -- how long is the 32-bit version of Tumbleweed going to be supported with new patches? I'm just curious because Leap and SLE are only 64-bit.
I hold it like this with i586: as long as I can without alienating the entire distro. One thing needs to be said clearly here though: the test coverage is only on x86_64 - on i586 we just have a couple minimal tests left in openQA. So in the end, we know it builds and is 'generally installable' . Any test beyond that is not covered (and, as we just have seen with Thunderbird: a fix that worked for x86_64 did not cover i586). Of course we will try to fix even that problem. In plus, it depends what upstreams offer to us. IIRC, Firefox actually announced to no longer support building for i586 with one of the next versions - now, 'not supporting' can mean it still works for now, but if it breaks, bugs are unlikely to be fixed by upstream. In this case it is up to the openSUSE community to make it happen. Cheers, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Op vrijdag 2 juni 2017 22:11:55 CEST schreef Christopher Myers:
Ok cool, thanks much :)
I've got some old hardware that I'm trying to keep alive because it works perfectly well as my server at home (it's old, but quite energy efficient,) so I'm just seeing how much longer I can keep it going :)
I would recommend a Raspberry Pi type of system, which takes only a few Watts to operate. I have a RP12, with Tumbleweed, as my server, and a spare RPi3, with 42.2, standing by. -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
I'll probably do that at some point. I do have an odroid u3 that I love, and plan to upgrade and make my default server again at some point. Boring, nerdy reason why I'm not using it currently :: Using an SD card for storage of our personal stuff ended up being a bit unreliable, so I got an SSD in an external enclosure with a separate power supply. For some reason, the U3 couldn't successfully power the SSD over its USB ports, it'd draw the voltage down too much and reboot. So I mounted it in a wall-mounted industrial enclosure that I got for free, and ran them both with an external 7 amp power supply, which worked fine, but it's not very portable. So right now I'm using the old zotero box until I can find a new enclosure that works and is portable. Plus, the version of Debian that I was running the U3 on is nearing its EOL, so I needed to upgrade it to the latest version anyhow. I love the CloudShell, but can't afford to pick up an XU4 to go with it 😝 From: Freek de Kruijf <freek@opensuse.org> Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2017 5:32 AM To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed 32-bit support lifetime Op vrijdag 2 juni 2017 22:11:55 CEST schreef Christopher Myers:
Ok cool, thanks much :)
I've got some old hardware that I'm trying to keep alive because it works perfectly well as my server at home (it's old, but quite energy efficient,) so I'm just seeing how much longer I can keep it going :)
I would recommend a Raspberry Pi type of system, which takes only a few Watts to operate. I have a RP12, with Tumbleweed, as my server, and a spare RPi3, with 42.2, standing by. -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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