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 at 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 at 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-devel mailing list >> CentOS-devel at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >> > > > > -- > Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140110/86d8f7ed/attachment-0007.html>