Dropping i686 media for F24

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 13:44:00 UTC 2015


On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann at redhat.com> wrote:
> Paul W. Frields píše v St 19. 08. 2015 v 14:29 -0400:
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2015-August/
>> 001661.html
>>
>> Stephen Gallagher has proposed a Change for Server to drop i686 media
>> for F24.  Given our previous list discussion, this is something for
>> which we should probably follow suit.  Thoughts?
>
> Hi,
> ambassadors have not produced 32-bit Fedora DVDs since F21, we've come
> to a conclusion that there are not ordinary PCs and laptops which are
> still 32-bit CPU based and can reasonably run Fedora Workstation.
>
> On the other hand, there are use cases when it makes sense to run a 32
> -bit system on a 64-bit PC. I, for instance, installed 32-bit Fedora
> Workstation on an Endless PC because it only has 2 GB of memory and 32
> -bit software is less memory hungry.

For that case a 64bit kernel + 32 bit user space would be a better
choice ... but OTOH its to much of a corner case to justify the
effort.


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