Hi,
32b supp is planned up to 2020 (RH supp for 6x)
I think this should be enough for any HW to live up to it's expectations.
The laptops you talk about are 6+ yrs old now ... will be 12yrs then.
After that its museum piece :].
I for one am quite content with 32b supp. drop. Will save some devs
rescources, which in the end will be good for us all.
cheers,
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On 12/15/2014 04:16 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
Sorry most distros and are dropping 32 bit support. To be honest that
laptop as well made as it was is getting to old for developers to worry
about supporting.
That said there are always distros that focus on running on older
hardware. I don't know the current list of good ones to try but you can
find them with a little research. One of those may buy it an other
couple of years but due to browsers compatibility I wouldn't count on it.
-- Sent from my HP Pre3
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On Dec 15, 2014 5:30 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
I was sad to learn that there will not be a 32 bit version of
SL7 / RHEL7 . I run older T60 laptops with 3x4 aspect ratio
screens, and have a stockpile of spares and screens and keyboards
that should last a long time. I dislike "runt screen" AKA wide
screen displays. However, my venerable laptops use 32 bit
processors.
I hope to have enough 3x4 goodness to last as long as I do, and
machines that will keep working for my wife (and her business) who
will likely outlive me. However, Redhat stops providing security
support of the 6 series of distros after 2023. I love the SL
community, and would love to keep upgrading SL distros forever,
and also keep using the old 32 bit machines, but it appears that
I must give up one or the other soon, or deal with some big
changes when I no longer have the ability to adapt to them.
Are there other distros with even longer LTS policies than SL and
RHEL? Is there some way to keep supporting SL6x with security
updates long after RH stops providing them? Some in our community
may have built measurement systems around 32 bit CPUs that must
keep collecting data far into the future - what is the plan?
Keith
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