we've have already had this discussion several times in the past, first about i686 related to turbolinux, then later on a couple of times a couple of years ago or so...
5-15% performance increase on legacy hardware isn't really noticable for end users (I've changed to -mtune=atom btw., should help), while i585 compatibility is still a niché feature that fewer and fewer others are supporting. Being a distro that supports i586 was the argument back then for keep supporting it due to still several both old (and usable, ie. like via c3) and some new cpus lack cmov instruction, while in third world countries i586 are still common, ie. especially think of schools etc. where they make perfect terminal clients for a more terminal server. Killing it off, kills of potential market... So I *INSIST* on keeping it, discard the i586 port and I'll take whatever means to prevent it. And why the fuck do you have polls on this through OMA? OMA is not involved with the distro development, that should be pretty fucking clear by now! If anything, this poll should merely be a poll and nothing but a poll just to give some overview and act as an indicator to developers of popularity.. cooker should be the place to make this decission, shouldn't this have been made clear several times over the past couple of years?? Hijacking the project two weeks after it was made ultimately clear proved it not to be, but OMA should have been made clear of this grand mistake by then... If not, you'll just wither and die... -- Regards, Per Øyvind 2015-06-08 15:06 GMT+02:00 Nicolò Costanza <[email protected]>: > In my opinion, the 32bit is necessary and mandatory still for few year, > the i686 support is good for over 99% of 32bit users, and the best it's a > bit faster than i586 especially in the multimedia field... > > (I am saying all that from my experience of MIB with Mandriva upto 2011, > where all our packages stored into MIB repositories for 32bit were: i686 > only rebuilt, also my Kernels were all i686, and noone of our 32bit users > had any problems with i686 arch in their 32bit PCs, as results we had > results like from 5 to 15% faster than i586) > > More: a move from i586 to i686 would be perceived as an improvement and a > progress! > > (i686 is working fine and better in the 99%, and likely more, of all 32bit > PCs, > the i586 only capable cpus are hardly findable and are rather like a > whitefly) > > > ---------- > bye, NicCo > > > > Il Sabato 6 Giugno 2015 17:36, Nicolò Costanza <[email protected]> ha > scritto: > > > Hi > > one PCs over two that I install to some friends, is still 32bit > Linux is used as windows alternative for old and cheap PCs > > abandoning 32bit would be like a suicide... > > --------- > thanks > bye, NicCo > > > > Il Venerdì 5 Giugno 2015 21:24, Kate Lebedeff <[email protected]> ha > scritto: > > > > https://blog.openmandriva.org/2015/06/should-openmandriva-keep-supporting-i586/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OM-Cooker mailing list > [email protected] > http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org >
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