End of 32-bit support?

[jd1008]

On 01/21/2015 03:40 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 01/21/2015 10:46 AM, poma wrote:
>
>> You know that popular saying,
>> Open source does not necessarily mean the open mind.
> I am in vehement disagreement with this and repeatedly expressed it 
> before: "OpenSource needs open minds".
>
>> BTW Ralf, are you prepared for incoming inevitable Fedora debacle,
> I am semi-prepared :-)
>
> I am occasionally trying other distros and have a i386 multi-boot 
> configuration on my (i386) Netbook, consisting of Win8.1, Fedora, 
> openSUSE and Ubuntu.
>
> On this netbook, sse2 would not be a problem. Should Fedora drop the 
> i386, this netbook will likely be converted Win8.1-only and will be 
> used as dedicated Win-machine to serve those few cases I can not avoid 
> using Win.
>
>> did you choose a decent distribution for relocation of machinery?
> Not wrt. to the PIII, Firstly, these "abandon sse", abandon sse2", 
> "abandon i386" discussions have taken me by surprise (IMO, these are a 
> coup d'etat).
>
> I'll definitely will try to keep this machine running. So far, I 
> haven't investigated which distros still support non-sse2 
> architectures. If CentOS7 did, I would switch to that now. 
> Unfortunately the initial promise of the CentOS project to provide 
> one, also doesn't seem to be wanting to become true.
>
> That said, I'll likely try openSUSE first, then Ubuntu and if all else 
> fail - I'll likely resort CentOS6. But, as no decision has been drawn 
> yet, at least for now, I don't feel a pressing need to act.
>
> Ralf
>
>
>
I honestly do not see any reason to make so much noise about it.
Where are 16 bit OS'es today? Does anyone want to go back to them?
Not me.
So, I think it is inevitable  that support for 32 bit OS'es will come to 
an end.