Greetings, ----- Original Message ----- > There's also a very large commercial 32bit user base that is being > abandoned by the upstream. I know the "Centos marks" can't be used > in commercial markets, but this is a topic that could use some > thought. > > I'm talking on the order of hundreds of thousands of platforms that > require newer os features, but logistics fail to allow the hardware > to be updated. I'm not talking theoretical here, I'm talking of a > legitimate case where the upstream is abandoning its existing > customer base and trying to force hardware upgrade schedules. Is it > past time everything was 64bit? Sure. Does that mean I can just wave > a magic wand and make it happen on their schedule? Absolutely not. Upstream has also "abandoned" a significant number of hardware RAID cards and network cards in EL7. I have a few HP Proliant 64-bit servers that are about 6 or 7 years old... and the RAID card isn't detected in 7 where it was in 6. I've heard a few other people mention the same thing with regards to their NICs. So besides the hundreds of thousands of existing systems running 32-bit only, there are also quite a few other systems that are incompatible with EL7 because of other hardware. Answer, continue to use 6 for the years it has left. If EL6 died on EL7 release day, then yes there would be an "abandonment"... but since 6 still has a few years left on it, not so much. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work]