Reindl Harald composed on 2015-11-07 16:12 (UTC+0100): > Felix Miata composed:
>> Kevin Kofler composed on 2015-11-07 14:05 (UTC+0100): >>> Reindl Harald wrote: >>>> come on and don't tell me 99% of i686 users have machines older than 10 >>>> years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE3 because "ntel introduced SSE3 >>>> in early 2004 with the Prescott revision of their Pentium 4 CPU" >> Any demarcation that is calendar based is purely arbitrary. 64 bit was >> introduced far more than 10 years ago. There is plenty of 32 bit hardware >> perfectly capable of doing what needs doing regardless of age. Not everyone >> needs, or wants, the bloat that newer enables. Not everyone is "speed" >> sensitive, while most are sensitive to the security that keeping current >> provides > and these are the Fedora relevant users? Surely there are people who need relativly recent or current versions of software other than web browsers who aren't concerned with speed or replacing hardware at an arbitrary chronological age. Photographers using Darktable may well be among them. Under any given roof, it makes sense to keep all machines on the same OS when practical. Who's to say a whole family or business should be using CentOS because one machine is past its prime? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
