I have just upgraded my laptop from 8GB to 12GB RAM.

Previously I was using F19 i686 with PAE,

as I had no applications that wanted more than 4GB,

especially since there was only 8GB total.

The main reason for this is that I still get to use all 8GB

and my 32bit apps like skype work more seamlessly.

Now that I have 12GB RAM I installed F20 x86_64 this time.

Although my experience with PAE in Linux was good,

I cannot say the same where I tried it on Windows.

dave.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan <sharuzzaman@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Andreas,

I personally interested in this effort.

My customer is mostly running their system on quite old system, but it does the job.

And I'm always provide my customer with CentOS, in anticipation if they want to move to a supported OS later, they can just install Red Hat, and very high probability that their application will just work.

But, if Red Hat, thus CentOS stops i686 release, I have no other option than moving my customer to other distribution that support x86 machine.

I also believe a lot of 3rd world country still running a lot of x86 machine, and this is actually a big market that Red Hat is abandoning.

Maybe Karanbir can point that out to Red Hat when you have a meeting with them.

Thanks.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Andreas Thienemann <andreas@bawue.net> wrote:
Hi,

I'm in the process of building myself a 32bit tree of the RHEL7 beta as
I do have a few x86 machines I am not ready to retire yet.

Now that CentOS is all open and community etc. I was wondering if
there'd be some interest for me to rebuild the results within the CentOS
project and turn it into an official release long term.
My unfinished work so far is based on an older RHEL5 buildsystem I still
had lying around but I am happy to switch this to the CentOS toolstack
if there's interest.
This would mean filing off the serials, removing trademarks and all
these things which I hadn't planned on doing initially but on the other
hand, it should be very easy doing that benefitting from the regular
CentOS work on these topics.

Is anyone else interested in a i[36]86 build of CentOS7 and would be
willing and able to contribute to it?
Or is x86_64 the only release really needed?

If there's some interest, I am sure this could be turned into a nice
project.

cheers,
Andreas

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