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Shed a tear for the Winchips, and Cyrixes that will never be useful again.

• squarefoot 7y ago
  Upgrading from Ubuntu to Debian solves this one among other problems. Ubuntu comes from a company, Debian from a community; the main difference being that companies must be kept profitable, so they will axe any piece of the product that won't be or appear as profitable to them, either because it doesn't sell, or because it consumes resources (developers time).
  • __s 7y ago
    To be fair, Arch dropped i686 years ago. How many people are really stuck on 32 bit? & if companies are so quick to axe things, why is Windows still offered on 32-bit where it'll run many 16-bit programs? Your post is really slanted "upgrading to Debian", "Company vs Community", suggesting that profit goes against the user's best interest I'm writing this as someone who uses Arch at home & Debian at work
    • squarefoot 7y ago
      edit: hit submit too early leaving partial post... '"Company vs Community", suggesting that profit goes against the user's best interest' That depends on what users interests are: if they match with the company goals, then profit will help users as well. Killing parts of a project because they don't bring money is perfectly acceptable for a company (just look at how many project were axed by Google recently), but again, we should ask to users who invested time and money working with them. BTW, Many small appliances, embedded systems etc. still run 32 bit cpus. Linux isn't just for servers or desktops.
    • rbanffy 7y ago
      > How many people are really stuck on 32 bit? There's a post about Lockheed looking for VAX people. I guess a lot of people are using 32 bit machines. OTOH, they don't tend to run the latest software.