End of 32-bit support?

[poma]

On 21.01.2015 18:26, jd1008 wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

First you have to agree with yourself, regardless of how many bits!
:)