On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 8:14 AM Claude Frantz <claude.fra...@bayern-mail.de> wrote:
> On 11/16/20 2:24 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > I know re-installation can be a pain, but I wonder how many people > running > > a 32bit distro in 2020 are doing it on 64bit hardware... Likely most? > No doubt, it's a pain, especially when we are not running a vanilla > installation. > > At first, on this machine here, it was not recommanded to run the 64 bit > mode, because of the many issues of the 64 bit OS. Therefore, I have > installed the the 32 bit mode software and I have upgraded nearly on > every release change. Then came GNOME 3 and I have switched to xfce > because I have a computer and not a big circus game console. Now, the 32 > bit software is not more available on Fedora. > > If a reinstallation is necessary, I think I will prefer the 64 bit > Debian, although Debian is still available for the 32 bit architecture. > The short lifetime of a Fedora release is a problem for me. With Debian, > the problem is different, because many packages are really outdated. I > confess, that a reinstallation is not a very exciting job for me. > Well the two often go together don't they? Long support but outdated software. Short support but the latest software. An alternative may be CentOS 8. I try to keep most amateur radio packages building on it either officially (if there's an EPEL branch) or unofficially in my COPR and can include more by request as long as the build dependencies exist, which they seem to be so far. Thanks, Richard KF5OIM
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