Hi,
32b supp is planned up to 2020 (RH supp for 6x)
I think this should be enough for any HW to live up to it's expectations.
The laptops you talk about are 6+ yrs old now ...  will be 12yrs then.

After that its museum piece :].

I for one am quite content with 32b supp. drop. Will save some devs 
rescources, which in the end will be good for us all.

cheers,



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On 12/15/2014 04:16 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> Sorry most distros and are dropping 32 bit support. To be honest that
> laptop as well made as it was is getting to old for developers to worry
> about supporting.
>
> That said there are always distros that focus on running on older
> hardware. I don't know the current list of good ones to try but you can
> find them with a little research. One of those may buy it an other
> couple of years but due to browsers compatibility I wouldn't count on it.
>
>
>
> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Dec 15, 2014 5:30 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[log in to unmask]> 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.
>
> I hope to have enough 3x4 goodness to last as long as I do, and
> machines that will keep working for my wife (and her business) who
> will likely outlive me. However, Redhat stops providing security
> support of the 6 series of distros after 2023. I love the SL
> community, and would love to keep upgrading SL distros forever,
> and also keep using the old 32 bit machines, but it appears that
> I must give up one or the other soon, or deal with some big
> changes when I no longer have the ability to adapt to them.
>
> Are there other distros with even longer LTS policies than SL and
> RHEL? Is there some way to keep supporting SL6x with security
> updates long after RH stops providing them? Some in our community
> may have built measurement systems around 32 bit CPUs that must
> keep collecting data far into the future - what is the plan?
>
> Keith
>
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