Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > Because that's significantly less of our userbase. I'd love to have > harder numbers, but we're still talking about a set of CPUs that > (outside of corner cases like the Geode and C3) ceased production > anywhere from 4 (Athlon) to 6 (P3) to 10 (P2) years ago. But they are still useful CPUs with Linux (maybe not so much with Windows, but that's just another reason to support them for Fedora!). At work, I have a couple of DNS/RADIUS/email relay servers that are dual-PIII. I have several firewalls that are old Celeron (no SSE2). My desktop that I'm writing this on is an Athlon XP. I have a personal file/mail server that is an Athlon XP. All of these systems are working just fine at the jobs they do. For example, one dual-PIII is handling 3-6 email relays per second and 150-250 recursive DNS queries per second (24 hour averages). The disk I/O for the email is the biggest limiting factor. Removing support for still-functional hardware is a trademark of Microsoft, not Linux. I'd also argue that doing another full rebuild of the OS for a 1% performance gain on a single architecture is not a particularly production use of resources. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
