On 12/15/2013 10:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Alain Péan <alain.pean@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> so stay on RHEL6/CentOS6 until this old hardware dies >>>> where is the problem? >>> Google Chrome, etc. >>> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Life-cycle_dates >>>> >>>> *who* is forcing you to RHEL7? >>> Nobody wants old desktop apps. >>> >> In this case, use Fedora. Since the release of windows 8 and 2012 (and >> even before) and UEFI, all new hardware are 64 bit capable, and even ARM >> will release a 64 bit version. Remember that in RHEL, 'E' is for >> Enterprise (and in CentOS, 'ent' means the same). That is, stability and >> maintennace on the long term are more important than recent desktop apps. > In the environments where LTSP is used (schools, etc.) there would > typically be a reasonably current server where you want stability and > low maintenance and it PXE-boots the clients (thus no > maintenance...). There is also typically not a systems expert on site > since one of the reasons to use it in education is to keep costs down. > Keeping Fedora running would be i nightmare. Ubuntu might be > tolerable, though. Or perhaps it can be altered to boot a different > system on the clients like DRBL. > Well, then convince Red Hat to build it :D IF (and only if) it works to build i686, we (CentOS) might try to do it. However, it will not initially be a priority.
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