On 3/29/23 08:37, Per Jessen wrote:
nother heads-up to the i586 users,
Snpashot 20230326 is the last snapshot that will carry i586 binaries in the main repositories. If you are running a 32-bit installation of Tumbleweed, make sure to check your repositories and have them point to the correct locations: Thanks for that Andrei - at some point I would have started wondering why there was nothing to update :-) I have a single 586 system left.
A milestone passes. There was a time SUSE was lightning fast on a Tbird 800 taking full advantage of the on-die L2 cache running at full processor speed. While that is still plenty enough to run a box with a lightweight desktop, fluxbox, i3, or even KDE3, it would not weather well attempting to keep up with gnome, plasma or large apps like Libre today. Arch moved away from i586 a year or two ago (it's still available as a separate sub-distro), and it makes sense for SUSE to do the same. While it is a disappointment that alot of good hardware is now, 2nd-class, but the increasing maintenance challenges for both justify the split. The funny thing is while there is ample support for low-powered boxes like the Pi, the old i586 hardware will run circles around it, but is now considered "old" for some reason. Go figure... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.