On 12/9/13, 5:25 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
Jeff Mahoney wrote:
On 12/07/2013 10:07 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
В Sat, 7 Dec 2013 13:00:00 -0500 Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> пишет:
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> wrote:
El 05/12/13 14:18, Jeff Mahoney escribió: Wow, that's good news, for openSUSE we must start by changing the download pages that default to 32 bit isos.. then slowly fade i586 away.. I propose 2 releases from now on. 32-bit looks like it will hang around for long time as far as I'm concerned. I'm actually surprised SLES is able to ignore that user group, but that is not relevant to this list.
SLES users tend not to dig out old hardware to run a new version of the OS on it.
But openSUSE users do want to be able to run new versions of the OS on existing hardware. Not everybody is in a position to rush out and buy the latest sparkly goodies, even at Xmas. And as has been pointed out, there are ethical questions with encouraging trashing of otherwise good machines.
So I suggest openSUSE forgets about stopping building 32-bit versions until there is good evidence that nobody wants it. i.e. make the decision based on user demand.
Absolutely. I'm just explaining the reasons for not supporting it any longer with SLES. That's the decision made based on user demand. I'm not proposing that the same demands exist in the openSUSE community. My initial comment was more my personal opinion as someone who doesn't have any 32-bit hardware left. -Jeff -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs