From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 29 14:43:05 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16C9C014ED for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:43:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emorrasg@yahoo.es) Received: from nm4-vm4.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm4-vm4.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.102]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52106867 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:43:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emorrasg@yahoo.es) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.es; s=s2048; t=1475160053; bh=uH/kT3NzDn1aG023ajs1SQbLSHFHpdqRwczB+lcZtnM=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=cAG0FZcQoqu2N1EJRkS+sO1s5+WI9yX35334NLj7rB5fRe3btDbhiCbSeuMmop5E6GR/IDcmiJBmgpOfai33HP5xnzVlMbSIpabJ1cJshuFU9s52rrxNqtHY1yumaLRpl6l11Wo7+w/uwATr1eyEcRfjAVNbvamriDlItTEBhTZRt0XL5i5BINISpYFLz3drM55DgkeOsHBoJuvuo60HzQ+V3UaYwWYIzXCts5GUtL52gJVg86M65GJaW4IHymhKyoO45PtbOpj77xHACnCSLJ+qINIb3AubyKMS0xyHIPfrAjvXXlHpQWwBsYqwJ/DbuQ/eE5AQnXUbA4b/xbUlHw== Received: from [212.82.98.60] by nm4.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Sep 2016 14:40:53 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.93] by tm13.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Sep 2016 14:40:53 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp130.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Sep 2016 14:40:53 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 458098.28121.bm@smtp130.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: aWyEWjQVM1kBwO09egHeWO9hgxdkwHZFUCEIS_u3cC394eq .RLHUcyeBqxh1Nz1A12ewPFXTbSy6iLstPIoUbtzs3Ln0Z_G3RbJl5uSvRa. D2dsQqC2YsE.Spi_YxoYQlu_d4w2.GvdraDrr5wnK.lVzUa5kDhIpB6ISUer 2.uAThVS9mLBc6KfjyfOD2UOSjVJ6LhfXpoHliTRVbt0cFl6urhtE6u0JeNj m3cjkXVfs7A6KdpoWPLewoYQyJ56tsAeYyM957jr6OIRWFlqPfmrOF.LEz8L pPV8eovA7IY5rus7AlGv.2l4K7X232QSxe5QSV1zHewW9IKLV3woS1Xj_cB8 ZJQ_AXQNoDHqVAzGUYDDRbrFchbfEL6Or0vyYzEJR8SL1GoXGjCMV62.eZcM VOzcltRa3judWh1A.UfyQPFHqesxN__F8Z3w035rI0Ez95hJefNv2mjQpgsp M5gSj5o2HlIgtxD36CNLH2O0zNDu3CVrGiSMQLwLcmdp4NaZNSaPBtM_9A.4 0xtYqKlRoVgaeYM9YsabwK6FfpTY- X-Yahoo-SMTP: mX392iiswBAeJNdO_s.EW62LZDJR Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:41:03 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386 version in future ? Message-Id: <20160929164103.e359aecff9cb9e71f6d1e6ed@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <35.AF.06698.BEF4AE75@dnvrco-oedge03> References: <0D6BF663-5C95-4625-B412-00E14EF97986@FreeBSD.org> <35.AF.06698.BEF4AE75@dnvrco-oedge03> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:43:05 -0000 On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:53:58 +0000 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > > On 27 Sep 2016, at 10:22, Micha__ . wrote: > > > I've stupid/not stupid question to FreeBSD Foundation. > > That___s not a foundation decision. The foundation supports the > > project financially and legally. It does not make any technical > > decisions regarding the > > direction of the project. > > > > You have plans to stop release the i386 (32bit) version of > > > FreeBSD system in next releases ? > > > I___m not aware of (and would be very surprised by) any plans to > > drop support for > > i386. There are many applications for embedded x86 boards, so it > > will remain a useful architecture for the foreseeable future. > > > Regards, > > Kristof > > Some applications run only on 32-bit, or the 32-bit version is better > developed: wine, for instance. > > Bitrig, forked from OpenBSD (bitrig.org), supports amd64 but not i386. > > DragonFlyBSD quit 32-bit i386. Some Linux distributions have also > quit i386. > > But for older computers, as well as applications that require or do > better on i386, I would vote to retain i386, and I believe this is > the consensus among FreeBSD developers. I use it for VMs that requiere low resources, upto 2 GB RAM, 10GB disk, etc... I think it won't happen any time soon > Tom > --- --- Eduardo Morras