On 21.01.2015 18:26, jd1008 wrote: > > On 01/21/2015 03:40 AM, 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". >> >>> 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. >> >> 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 >> >> >> > I honestly do not see any reason to make so much noise about it. > Where are 16 bit OS'es today? Does anyone want to go back to them? > Not me. > So, I think it is inevitable that support for 32 bit OS'es will come to > an end. > > First you have to agree with yourself, regardless of how many bits! :) -- 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
