2013/5/1 Ian Whyman <[email protected]>: > I'm not sure I would ever has said that a Pentium 4 has decent performance.
Depending on what you do, it does. > If you are still relying on chips from earlier than 2005 to do any > serious work you should consider an upgrade (save power and better > performance from even an i3) or virtualising the workload onto one > hypervisor. Thank you for the suggestion, bus as long as I will work in the place I am I will have very little power to push people for hardware upgrades, especially when the "what's wrong with the current setup?" question arises. So those P4 and the Minimac will remain there for a long time, and I would like to keep running Sabayon server :) > On 1 May 2013 10:44, Danilo Pianini <[email protected]> wrote: >> Still using it on several systems: three servers and a Minimac (I'm >> using it for building a smart pervasive screen). >> Don't forget that many systems still exist with decent performance and >> no amd64 support, Pentium 4 for instance. >> >> Moreover, I can see many users still download the x86 version (I'm >> seeding the torrents). It's not dead at all. >> >> I would wait a few years. In my opinion x86 is still worth the >> resources we are dedicating to it. >> >> 2013/5/1 Vojtěch Pszczólka <[email protected]>: >>> Despite of i'm not developing Sabayon, i can't see any reason for >>> maintaining i386. How looks typical i386 user :-D ? >>> >>> Wolfden <[email protected]>napsal/a: >>> >>>>I for killing it off too >>>> >>>> >>>>On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Ian Whyman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> As always I am very much pro this. >>>>> On 1 May 2013 07:30, "Fabio Erculiani" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> So, x86_64 is more than 10 years old now, and it's time to think again >>>>>> about the i686 architecture. >>>>>> I am proposing to gradually drop support for x86 32bit by the end of >>>>>> 2013 (the "how" would deserve a separate discussion). >>>>>> Is there any serious reason not to kill 32bit? Maintaining it takes >>>>>> 50% of our resources (time and space) and we could just dedicate some >>>>>> of them to the other emerging architecture called ARM. >>>>>> >>>>>> This is just an RFC for now, don't get scared. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Fabio Erculiani >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>KJS >>>>~wolfden~ >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini >> >> Site: http://www.danilopianini.org/ >> Phone: +39 320 41 36 573 >> Skype: dany.sk >> > > > > -- > Ian Whyman > v00d00.net > -- Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini Site: http://www.danilopianini.org/ Phone: +39 320 41 36 573 Skype: dany.sk
