On 21.01.2015 11:40, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 01/21/2015 10:46 AM, poma wrote: > >> You know that popular saying, >> Open source does not necessarily mean the open mind. > I am in vehement disagreement with this and repeatedly expressed it > before: "OpenSource needs open minds". > These two should not be contradictory. >> BTW Ralf, are you prepared for incoming inevitable Fedora debacle, > I am semi-prepared :-) > > I am occasionally trying other distros and have a i386 multi-boot > configuration on my (i386) Netbook, consisting of Win8.1, Fedora, > openSUSE and Ubuntu. > You are a genuine enthusiast! > On this netbook, sse2 would not be a problem. Should Fedora drop the > i386, this netbook will likely be converted Win8.1-only and will be used > as dedicated Win-machine to serve those few cases I can not avoid using Win. > >> did you choose a decent distribution for relocation of machinery? > Not wrt. to the PIII, Firstly, these "abandon sse", abandon sse2", > "abandon i386" discussions have taken me by surprise (IMO, these are a > coup d'etat). > > I'll definitely will try to keep this machine running. So far, I haven't > investigated which distros still support non-sse2 architectures. If > CentOS7 did, I would switch to that now. Unfortunately the initial > promise of the CentOS project to provide one, also doesn't seem to be > wanting to become true. > > That said, I'll likely try openSUSE first, then Ubuntu and if all else > fail - I'll likely resort CentOS6. But, as no decision has been drawn > yet, at least for now, I don't feel a pressing need to act. > > Ralf > http://thelinuxworks.blogspot.com/2014/05/32-bit-enterpise-linux-still-matters.html Johnny HughesMay 31, 2014 at 6:57 PM We intend to have a 32 bit port available for CentOS.. But it will be best effort and may lag the official effort as it will be a secondary effort. http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/7/isos/ x86_64/ Yeah, there *is* lag. Ralf, what do you think, whether Fedora end differently. :) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
