Re: End of i686 Support

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On 09/06/2017 01:41 PM, Tim wrote:
And, is it still feasible to run the OS on old hardware?

Why should it not be?

Just because some $DEITY@Redhat has decided you to throw away your old hardware you must do so?

Up to fc25 it was technically perfectly possible to run Fedora on a variety of old hardware. Wth f26 things have tightened - f26 runs on some ix86s but doesn't on others.

Whether it is feasible for a personal use case, is up to you to decide.

I chose Fedora because I run Fedora on all of my machines and because I didn't want to add the personal load to maintain yet another OS.

Now RH and FESCO seems to be want to push me to draw a decision - ATM, I am evaluating other distros and am not sure I will continue support Fedora.

 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.

Well, don't read too much into the docs. I have been running Fc26 w/ xfce4 on a Pentium III w/ 512MB RAM. No way with Gnome or KDE on this system.

Ralf
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