On 12/05/11 11:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Phil Dobbinphildobbin@gmail.com wrote:
> I guarantee that there'll be 32 bit systems for a minimum of 10 more > years. Esp. in the current depression, everyone will hang onto what they > have until the boxen die, or look to die. And then there's laptops....
then they should stick with older software.
Not really reflective of the spirit of open source software...
You mean you don't think there are enough current choices? Visit http://www.distrowatch.com... Or do you think they_all_ have to support every possible device?
indeed, that was my point. its silly to expect the latest release of ENTERPRISE LINUX, a distribution clearly targeted at servers, to have to support every funky old box end users can throw at it.
CentOS6 works freekin' awesome on a HP DL180G6 with dual Xeon X5660's, 48GB ram, and a SAS raid10 of 20 x 15000 rpm 146GB drives.... Seeing over 6000 transactions/second sustained from postgresql's pgbench with sufficient threads and workload multipliers. My circa 2004 Dell Latitude D600 "Dothan" (Pentium-M) laptop? I wouldn't even bother to try.