On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 03:40:27PM +0200, jdd wrote:
Le 21/07/2014 13:52, Felix Miata a écrit :
Right. Our landfills don't have enough perfectly usefull stuff polluting them, so let the FOSS people help fill them up, and give the economy a boost by forcing people to buy newer puters to replace perfectly good and working ones.
I don't think we have to take such ironic position.
the OP said "entreprise distributions", and right what enterprise do still buy 32bit computers?
If I have lot of them it's because big enterprises gave them as gift for my Linux User Groups (gift, but escaping a tax).
What I think is than Evergreen needs more man power and if it could last two more years (for a total of 5, sending us to 2018), it would be sufficient, these old hardware do accept 13.1 - some of them are already 8 years old :-) kde works perfectly at the expense of some ram
We could even use some crowdfunding, I'm ready to pay some bucks to keep it alive
As long as people continue to maintain and keep i586 running I do not see why we want to leave it. As side note, ppc32 and ppc64 are also still active, same as arm and there the number of users is very small. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org