From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tapani Tarvainen To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: On demoting i586 to "legacy" status Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:55:38 +0300 Message-ID: <20200806145538.GD13914@tarvainen.info> In-Reply-To: <6007DE2A-8CFD-41F9-8373-84C88917EB35@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8403142510702611473==" List-Id: --===============8403142510702611473== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 03:26:34PM +0100, Michael Tremer (michael.tremer(a)ip= fire.org) wrote: > As stated before, kernel support for 32 bits is bad. None of the > big commercial Linux distributions is releasing a 32 bit version any > more. RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Arch do not exist for i686 AFAIK. CentOS actually still does: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386 And Debian and Slackware do (although Debian now requires i686, but even I don't have any pre-PAE i586 things left). Of course they're not commercial distributions, but reasonably big and well-maintained nonetheless. > Hence we have to fix all the bugs on our own which we simply can=E2=80=99t = do. In my experience Debian is pretty good at that. > We knew that this has been coming for a while now. See here: >=20 > https://blog.ipfire.org/post/32-bit-is-dead-long-live-32-bit > > We are trying our best here, but if usage of that architecture > drops below 5% or so we can rather invest our time into something > else that benefits more users. I appreciate that. But if it's now at over 20%, it may take surprisingly long before it falls belos 5%. Anyway, I've already been planning to replace those ancient machines, but I can't see getting it done this year in any event. So I just ask, please don't rush it any more than you must. --=20 Tapani --===============8403142510702611473==--