Re: Impact of dropping QEMU emulation on 32-bit hosts ? (~Fedora 33)

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On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:42:57 AM MST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 04:49:08PM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps the same reason that many people still run i686 based hardware,
> > and  will be unable to use Fedora after the release of F31: Why fix what
> > isn't broken?
> 
> 
> But the question is: Are they running qemu on this hardware?  The last
> i686 machine I had that could run qemu guests - very slowly by modern
> standards - was manufactured in 2006, and I just last month got rid of it.
> 
> (As an aside Fedora/i686 has been effectively dead for quite a long
> time, so I'm pretty sure no one is running a supported Fedora on i686.
> They may be running a long out of support Fedora though.  I had to put
> Debian on my i686 machine towards the end.)

Fedora on i686 is not dead, and will not be until the release of F31, and the 
end of F30. There are users running Fedora on i686, such as myself.

The arbitrary decision to simply stop supporting i686 has not yet killed off 
our i686 users.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

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