On 15 December 2014 at 03:29, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > > I was sad to learn that there will not be a 32 bit version of > SL7 / RHEL7 . I run older T60 laptops with 3x4 aspect ratio > screens, and have a stockpile of spares and screens and keyboards > that should last a long time. I dislike "runt screen" AKA wide > screen displays. However, my venerable laptops use 32 bit > processors. > > For 12 year old laptops (as they will be in 2020 -> 2023) you are looking at needing to put some equity to keep supporting them. That means helping someone build and maintain a 32 bit port either through 'sweat' equity or paying someone to do it. The other item is that at 12 years even with a diminished/stopping Moore's law you are looking at the 'modern' software at that time most likely requiring something 4-8x more in CPU/memory than the laptop can handle. Thus sticking to RHEL-6 is probably your best bet.
> > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
