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To create the highest quality Distribution possible, is it in my opinion sense full, to put the packaging work into one arch, in order to release a lot of human power.

Other Distros like RHEL/CentOS 7, PC-BSD, Chakra, KaOS and Sabayon already drop their 32 Bit ISO`s, others like Fedora and Ubuntu will follow in the next couple of years.

ROSA can put all its focus on 64 Bit ISO`s with lib32 support for WINE, Steam, Skype, Teamviewer, Brother printers, Android development, the PCSX2 emulator and so on.

It is a good ten years now that 64 bit is available and it becomes sometimes more expensive to keep a 32 Bit computer on life, as to buy a second hand 64 Bit one.

There are enough nice operating systems out there, who will stand for sure some more years on 32 Bit, Debian and Slackware, as an example.

I post this proposal already into the Open Mandriva forum and the community there support a further 32 Bit ISO development: https://forums.openmandriva.org/en/disc ... n-one-arch

Since ROSA is a company, is it here maybe more sense full, to think about that idea.

Well, the future versions of our server (ROSA Enterprise Linux Server) are 64 bit only by default. But from the desktop side there are still a lot of users on x86 hardware, especially those who live far from Moscow/St.Petersburg and other big cities (in Europe/Asia the situation is similar, i guess). The upstream orientation for 64 only is well known but on the desktop u have to face the reality

PS -- and not to forget such x86-only packages as Skype, Steam etc

ДроноваЮ писал(а): and not to forget such x86-only packages as Skype, Steam etc

As stated, is it still possible to ship these packages on 64 Bit, like nearly each 64 Bit distro does that: (KaOS is the only one 100 % 64 Bit distro, which i know):

ShalokShalom писал(а):ROSA can put all its focus on 64 Bit ISO`s with lib32 support for WINE, Steam, Skype, Teamviewer, Brother printers, Android development, the PCSX2 emulator and so on.

ДроноваЮ писал(а):...from the desktop side there are still a lot of users on x86 hardware, especially those who live far from Moscow/St.Petersburg and other big cities (in Europe/Asia the situation is similar, i guess).

It might be a expedient, to continue with the marathon edition for them ?

ShalokShalom писал(а):It might be a expedient, to continue with the marathon edition for them ?

Surprize but lots of people want the latest versions of the software. By reading the forum's topis one may even think that 99% of our users use Linux only with one purpose -- everyday's updates, nothing else. And generally I would agree with what OM people said: forcing 64-bit only is definitely against the freedom of choice which is one of the base Linux principles

So ROSA Marathon get created for 1% of the user base ? And for which reason is a fresh system such important on more than 10 year old devices, which often have troubles to use facebook and youtube at the same time ?

Actually, u see, I can find no reasonable base at all for u demanding such a report from us

So you avoid the issue

I do, yes.
I avoid
1) subjects which have no practical meaning other than entertain users on forums
2) users who say «u are the company so u must do as I demand and answer all my questions»

Thank you.

You avoid logical arguments.