Robin Laing >> BUT. How many of these places are actually running Linux at >> all? This is a question to be asked. If the usage is small, then >> dropping support may be an matter of economy of development >> resources. Jeff Backus > Yes, this is a very important part of the question. If there isn't > enough interest within the community to actually support i686, or any > feature for that matter, then it makes sense to move on. And, is it still feasible to run the OS on old hardware? On my older 32-bit PCs, the notion of running Gnome or KDE is impossible. They're too slow for being fancy with the graphics card. And, some can't even run a modern distro, because they can only take 1 gig of RAM. The minimum specs for running Fedora have crept up and up over the years. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.12.8-300.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 17 15:30:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Hooray! I finally finished typing this email. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
