On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 08:14:43PM -0500, John Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 16:25 -0500, Don Wright wrote:
> > Dragan FOSS wrote:
> > >I think it's best to drop 32-bit support at all... it's such a waste of
> > >time and resources.
> >
> >
> > As long as you're pruning, kill x64 as well, because the majority of
> > computers sold are using ARM architecture and run Android or iOS.
>
> I think you are joking, but it helps not to confuse the three big forks
>
> 1. Linux / GNU / X, this is the fork Devuan is on and few Devuan
> installs are on ARM. At this late date, there probably aren't many on
> x86_32 either. Which is why discussion of eliminating a big chunk or
> archive space and compile time will continue to recur until eventually
> nobody can muster a good argument for continuing.


Hi John,

you might probably want to have a look at:

http://popcon.devuan.org/

Whatever the statistical significance of those data, it seems that
between 15% and 20% of Devuan installations are on i386. So apparently
there is no reason at all to drop it, rather the opposite.

HND

KatolaZ

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