[CentOS] Any further developments on CentOS7 for i386?

[Kay Schenk]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> On 10/06/2015 05:30 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> > Well I haven't tested out the CentOS 7 for i386 yet as sent in the
> > message of 06/02--
> >
> > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-June/013426.html
> >
> > Nor have I seen any additional information. So how is this going?
> > I'm almost ready to jump in as I would really prefer to be on  Gnome 3.
> >
>
> We have moved it into place here, which is where it is going to live
> permanently:
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/os/i386/
>

​Ok, thanks. I may install this soonish...
​


>
> I am working on a wiki page now and we are still doing some testing, but
> the 32 bit arch should be completely usable right now and installable
> (in its final form) from these isos:
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/
>
> The 2 bugs listed in the link above are still there:
>
> 1.  If installing on a QEMU (kvm) i386 VM, you must modify the VM cpu to
> use "copy host cpu"
>
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8748
>
> 2.  The gnome desktop will not exit or log out from the menu.
>
>  http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8834
>
> Both have workarounds listed.
>

​um...hmmm...the non-logout from Gnome would certainly be a hassle for me,
but not the shutdown as I don't shutdown from GUI. OK, I will look further
into this before changing over.


> We should have a release announcement fairly soon and hopefully EPEL
> will start building 32 bit packages soon(ish) as well.
>

​Thanks for the reply.
​


>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
>
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