End of 32-bit support?

[poma]

On 20.01.2015 18:51, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 01/20/2015 06:19 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Is it the introduction of requiring sse2?
> 
> Yes, this would definitely be death of Fedora on my PIII and would force 
> me to escape to a non-redhat distribution.
> 
> 
> I would also consider this to be an unfriendly act against those users, 
> who are keeping such old machines around,
> 
> - to drive old-hardware (This is the reason I keep a PIII).
> 
> - to test SW. IMO, using old HW are an efficient means to reveal issues 
> new SW has, one often would not notice on new HW.
> 
> - because they tried to escape WinXP's EOL. With WinXP having been 
> discontinued, many of these machines have been migrated to Linux or have 
> been given away for free and now are being "recycled" for 
> "testing"/"experimental" purposes.
> 
> - to prevent unnecessary expenses. Many of machines from this generation 
> are not as sensitive to HW-malfunctions and pre-planned obsolescence as 
> later generations of HW and still are usable for occasional use.
> 
> 
> Another other question would be "Why sse2?" and "why now?"
> 
> Fedora never, ever has had sse2, so the gradually remaining community of 
> ix86-users are not expecting to see it. - I feel requiring sse2 is a 
> management mistake, because it drives away users for the price of 
> questionable advantages.
> 
> 
> To put into a provocative question: Do you want to keep the group of 
> potential users big as possible or do you want squeeze the last bit out 
> and destabilize Fedora?
> 
> 
> Ralf
> 

You know that popular saying, 
Open source does not necessarily mean the open mind.

BTW Ralf, are you prepared for incoming inevitable Fedora debacle, 
did you choose a decent distribution for relocation of machinery?