On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 08:14:43PM -0500, John Morris wrote: > On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 16:25 -0500, Don Wright wrote: > > Dragan FOSS wrote: > > >I think it's best to drop 32-bit support at all... it's such a waste of > > >time and resources. > > > > > > As long as you're pruning, kill x64 as well, because the majority of > > computers sold are using ARM architecture and run Android or iOS. > > I think you are joking, but it helps not to confuse the three big forks > > 1. Linux / GNU / X, this is the fork Devuan is on and few Devuan > installs are on ARM. At this late date, there probably aren't many on > x86_32 either. Which is why discussion of eliminating a big chunk or > archive space and compile time will continue to recur until eventually > nobody can muster a good argument for continuing.
Hi John, you might probably want to have a look at: http://popcon.devuan.org/ Whatever the statistical significance of those data, it seems that between 15% and 20% of Devuan installations are on i386. So apparently there is no reason at all to drop it, rather the opposite. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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