Re: End of i686 Support

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2017-09-05 5:14 GMT+02:00, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 09/04/2017 07:18 PM, Andras Simon wrote:
>> 2017-09-04 18:36 GMT+02:00, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Actually, I'd recommend Fedora/RH to drop all other "secondary" archs,
>>> because they do not have a community user base.
>>
>> How do you know?
>
> - How many arm, s370, ppc or mips machines do you have around?
>    Except of the arm - which some enthusiasts/hobbists may have -
>    probably none.
>
> - How many ix86s have been sold?
>    Probably 100s of millions, if not billions.
>
> - How many ix86s are still in use?
>    Probably millions, most of them probably running Microsoft Windows.
>
>
> That said, I still have 3 of these around, so far having been running
> Fedora, but I am now looking for alternative distros because Fedora's
> leadership apparently is not willing to cater my personal needs.
>

To summarize, your answer is that you don't know. Me neither. All I
know is that I hate the idea of having to install and use some other
distro on my two x86 netbooks.
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