[email protected] said: > So, out of curiosity -- *who* is actively running illumos on 32-bit kit > today? I'm not interested in hypothetical uses or kit that is sitting around > in your garage waiting for you to do something with it . I'm interested in > people who would be immediately impacted and severely so if illumos were not > available on 32-bit CPUs right now. (To give a counter example: I have a > 32-bit Atom netbook, that I have OpenIndiana on. I turn it on once every > year or so if that often so I can't seriously claim that I would be > negatively impacted if illumos were to move to 64-bit only.)
And, [email protected] said: > Older hardware must be *really* old. Over 5 years. For servers, probably > over 10 years. I've thrown away my Pentiums and Pentium IIs. I suppose > there could be some Pentium IIIs and IVs out there, or AMD Athlons > (pre-Athlon64), but they'd all be really really slow by today's standards. > Do people run illumos on such kit? I'm highly doubtful, unless that kit is > around just to answer the question of whether 32-bit kernels still work. :-) I do. Been running OI on my Pentium IV 2.8GHz machine since oi148, which is when I converted it from Solaris-10. It has 2GB RAM and a couple 1TB drives in a mirror acting as ZFS backup server for other family members' Mac's, and also gets used daily as my personal home desktop machine (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, xsane, gimp, exmh/MH, rcs/svn, wireshark, etc). And, it runs a Solaris-10 zone brought forward to run two binaries I haven't yet found the time to port/compile on OI, gnucash and gnome-perfmeter. But hey, don't let me hold up progress. I'm used to feeling like the last person in the world still using a Solaris-based desktop. If I had the money, I'd replace it. I ran Solaris-x86 on my previous home machine for about 10 years before replacing it with the present one, so I guess I'm nearly due. Spent my entire career working in the non-profit sector, and my Dad had a rock crusher in his business that was about 90 years old when he retired it, so I'm pretty much doomed to be a Junk-Whisperer (:-).... Regards, Marion _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
