Validity of i686 as a release blocker

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/04/2015 05:12 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Paul W. Frields (stickster at gmail.com) said:

>
> Here's my perspective as an i686 Fedora user...
>
> I have a box (2009-ish) that's in use as a file/backup server.
I have 3 i686 boxen.

2 are 2009-ish atom-netbook, one is a 2000-ish PIII-desktop.

> As such, I don't
> spend a lot of time futzing with it - it doesn't run rawhide, it rarely runs
> the prereleases until beta or later time.  If something breaks, I'll look at
> it, send some feedback, update it as necessary, and back off to a working
> version.  And historically, it *hasn't* broken.
>
> But, if it did break that hard... would I spend a month digging into the
> kernel source and bisecting to try and find a fix? Or would I spend the
> $100-120 to slap a new motherboard in it and install the x86_64 version?
>
> I'd like to say I'd do the former. But realisitically it's the latter. And I
> wonder how much of the i686 Fedora-using community is in the same boat.

ACK. I would switch the 2009-atoms to Windows (They are dual boot with 
Win) and the PIII to a different Linux distro.

Ralf