On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Alain Péan alain.pean@lpn.cnrs.fr wrote:
so stay on RHEL6/CentOS6 until this old hardware dies where is the problem?
Google Chrome, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Life-cycle_dates
*who* is forcing you to RHEL7?
Nobody wants old desktop apps.
In this case, use Fedora. Since the release of windows 8 and 2012 (and even before) and UEFI, all new hardware are 64 bit capable, and even ARM will release a 64 bit version. Remember that in RHEL, 'E' is for Enterprise (and in CentOS, 'ent' means the same). That is, stability and maintennace on the long term are more important than recent desktop apps.
In the environments where LTSP is used (schools, etc.) there would typically be a reasonably current server where you want stability and low maintenance and it PXE-boots the clients (thus no maintenance...). There is also typically not a systems expert on site since one of the reasons to use it in education is to keep costs down. Keeping Fedora running would be i nightmare. Ubuntu might be tolerable, though. Or perhaps it can be altered to boot a different system on the clients like DRBL.