On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 11:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Here's my perspective as an i686 Fedora user... > > I have a box (2009-ish) that's in use as a file/backup server. As > such, I don't > spend a lot of time futzing with it - it doesn't run rawhide, it > rarely runs > the prereleases until beta or later time. If something breaks, I'll > look at > it, send some feedback, update it as necessary, and back off to a > working > version. And historically, it *hasn't* broken. > > But, if it did break that hard... would I spend a month digging into > the > kernel source and bisecting to try and find a fix? Or would I spend > the > $100-120 to slap a new motherboard in it and install the x86_64 > version? > > I'd like to say I'd do the former. But realisitically it's the > latter. And I > wonder how much of the i686 Fedora-using community is in the same > boat. So we have a product that is installed on about ~80 netbooks running i386-PAE kernels. They are now running f21 I think. I considered updating them but they are offline machines for nearly their entire life. I had contemplated putting CentOS 7 but there is no i386 for that. I would imagine that the hardware would be replaced by newer netbooks that handle x64. If they can't be they'll run EOL'd versions of fedora till death. If I can update them eventually it wouldn't matter to me if the i386 system saw less love but eventually came out. Granted if fedora dropped i386 completely I'd find a distro to use that supported it I guess if any. It wouldn't be the end of the world for me. -- Nathanael -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
