On 12/05/11 11:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Phil Dobbin<phildobbin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> >>> I guarantee that there'll be 32 bit systems for a minimum of 10 more
>>>> >>> years. Esp. in the current depression, everyone will hang onto what they
>>>> >>> have until the boxen die, or look to die. And then there's laptops....
>>> >> then they should stick with older software.
>> > Not really reflective of the spirit of open source software...
> You mean you don't think there are enough current choices? Visit
> http://www.distrowatch.com... Or do you think they_all_ have to
> support every possible device?
indeed, that was my point. its silly to expect the latest release of
ENTERPRISE LINUX, a distribution clearly targeted at servers, to have to
support every funky old box end users can throw at it.
CentOS6 works freekin' awesome on a HP DL180G6 with dual Xeon X5660's,
48GB ram, and a SAS raid10 of 20 x 15000 rpm 146GB drives.... Seeing
over 6000 transactions/second sustained from postgresql's pgbench with
sufficient threads and workload multipliers. My circa 2004 Dell
Latitude D600 "Dothan" (Pentium-M) laptop? I wouldn't even bother to try.
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john r pierce N 37, W 122
santa cruz ca mid-left coast
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