On 1 July 2015 at 01:03, Christian Boltz
Hello,
Am Dienstag, 30. Juni 2015 schrieb Cristian Rodríguez:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
There are probably thousand or millions of server type machine in the home or small business world still using 32 bit hardware.
Then think about it.. why would SUSE (and Redhat too!!) do not sell new products to target this supposedly massive server market? that should ring a few alarms... I have no idea how they really reach that conclusion,. but I 'm pretty sure they have smart people around.. and can make a wild guess..: .there is no such a big demand to economically justify the effort. ..and this means.. oh,oh..there is no profit motive to maintain this architecture in the two leading commercial distributors..and they employ most people to work on this!..ouch..
Please do not mix up commercial with community distributions.
Agreed, don't mix them up.. If testing & maintaining a 32-bit distribution is economically unfeasible for a commercial distribution, I think we have to think long and hard if it's feasible for us to do it in the community. Do we have enough hardware to test 32-bit? Do we have enough maintainers to patch 32-bit problems? Do we have enough users to justify it? I don't want to outright say No, we shouldn't have a 32-bit distribution, but I do think that's something we should *seriously* consider. Just look at our user numbers, 32-bit downloads of openSUSE Media has now reached terribly low levels..yet the 32-bit arch doubles our test hardware requirements for example... That doesn't seem smart.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org