On 8/23/12, Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Windows mostly sells with new hardware, and by the time win9 is > released all new hardware designed for it will be 64-bit capable. > Therefore it is not *profitable* for Microsoft to continue to develop > a 32-bit version. That doesn't apply to Linux. Linux is installed on > a broad range of hardware, new and old. In general, we don't drop > support for hardware unless there is nobody willing to maintain it. It won't also be profitable for Linux to support trash. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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