Am 12.12.2013 um 22:35 schrieb SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Leon Fauster leonfauster@googlemail.comwrote:
that is really an issue for us because we use EL for some small i586 hw (router etc.).
Indeed. Now RHEL/CentOS won't be able to run on PC Engines ALIX hardware (with PAE enabled in CentOS 6 the kernel needed recompiled, but that's not too horrible). I opted to run another distro, so I never went through all the work for ALIX hardware.
yep. the same hw here. i had tested openwall os some years ago. They have some correlation with rhel. Rebuilding rpms from EL should be straight forward but it will lead to more work :-)
In a way it's a shame... At the same time I can see why RH is going x86_64 only ... much hardware in data centers is 64bit capable and running 64bit OSes.
And they're also will be supporting three releases (5, 6, 7) for a period of time as well.
It's probably a good time to consider other alternatives. :-/ Fedora, Debian, Voyage, OpenWrt, Gentoo, etc, etc.
Unless it's embedded hardware ... by the time EL6 isn't supported I'll be you'll have a beefier x86_64 machine as a firewall! :)
any suggestions?
-- LF