On 12/05/11 11:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Phil Dobbin<phildobbin at 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. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast