On Thursday, May 28, 2020 10:46:18 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/28/20 9:19 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > It's quite possible that Suvayu Ali is one of the many users that cannot > > install Fedora 31, because it doesn't work on their hardware. Fedora 30 > > was the last release to support i686, so many users are now stuck there > > forever, unless they move to another distro entirely. > > > If it's a 32-bit issue then it has become irrelevant anyway since that > is no longer supported in Fedora. I fail to see how. That Fedora doesn't support it anymore doesn't mean that these situations stopped existing. > I have a computer mounted on my wall that used to run Fedora. It has a > Cyrix Geode processor and a few years ago Fedora was no longer suitable > for it. I didn't fuss at Fedora about that, technology moves on. I > switched to buildroot instead, which works much better. Technology has not "moved on". These systems are still completely viable, they're just not supported by Fedora anymore. > Please accept that the decision has been made and other major distros > are doing the same. Stop bringing it up all the time. If you really > have a device that can only do 32-bit, there are still other options. Yes, the other option would be to move to Debian or find another rpm-based distro that still supports 32 bit. All of this because Fedora decided to do what seems to be so common recently, dropping what still works well. This hurts our community. This hurts our users. It'd be one thing to make it so that QA requirements were effectively dropped on 32 bit, but there was no real reason to drop 32 bit support. It still worked, and quite well. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
