Am 13.12.2013 um 01:10 schrieb SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Leon Fauster leonfauster@googlemail.comwrote:
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?
I was thinking maybe a Soekris board with Intel Atom CPUs can get you the 64-bit CPUs you want. But no ... once you get through the models that have AMD Geode LX CPUs (which are 486/586) you stumble into models that have Intel Atom CPUs that are in the E6xx family which are not 64-bit capable. And boy are the upper-end models a bit salty (might be a bit cheaper from a distributor/reseller).
You could build a mini-ITX system ... but you'd probably quadruple power consumption (~5w for Geode LX800 systems and likely ~20w for Atom systems).
i got a response from Pcengines: "The new boards are still in the beta phase, production in february".
It looks promising especially the roadmap http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm :-)
-- LF