Re: Drop support for x86-32

[wbrana]

On 8/23/12, Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please stop trolling (and top-posting). Linux is NOT Windows where people
> must
> throw out their hardware because it stopped working in new version. There
> are
> millions of 32-bit x86 machines all around the world. If new Windows will
> not
> run on them, Linux will.
Windows 9 will be probably released in 2015. Linux always has tree
with long term support, which means support for x86-32 would be
dropped in 2017. In 2017 all 32-bit machines will be trash.
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