*thumps up* !
best regards
Blacky
Am 09.06.2015 um 08:18 schrieb Per Øyvind Karlsen:
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...
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Regards,
Per Øyvind
2015-06-08 15:06 GMT+02:00 Nicolò Costanza <[email protected]
<mailto:[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)
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bye, NicCo
Il Sabato 6 Giugno 2015 17:36, Nicolò Costanza <[email protected]
<mailto:[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...
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thanks
bye, NicCo
Il Venerdì 5 Giugno 2015 21:24, Kate Lebedeff <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:
https://blog.openmandriva.org/2015/06/should-openmandriva-keep-supporting-i586/
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