Win 32

mcmurchy1917techy mcmurchy1917techy at btinternet.com
Sun Jul 19 17:31:03 UTC 2020


I still have two 32 bit machines which using KDE4 which run LO 6.2.8.  
Might be wrong but I don't think LO 6.3 will run on a KDE4 machine.

Alex

On 19/07/2020 16:00, Michael H wrote:
> I'd say that it's likely that a majority of computers still running 
> win7 are running 32bit.
>
> I'd also suggest that all those users would prefer a stable 6.0 or 6.1 
> (or maybe 6.3) (no big interface changes from LO 3.2) to remain 
> installable and maintained for security, rather than installing LO 7 
> on them. That is anyone looking for a 32bit install is trying to 
> restore a computer back to its 2010 state, with current security patches.
>
> So, I'd vote for maintaining a separate feature Exact 6.3, or 6.1 32 
> bit version, and dropping 32bit from 7.0.
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 9:44 AM Ralf Quint <freedos.la at gmail.com 
> <mailto:freedos.la at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 7/19/2020 7:27 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
>     > Hi Dante,
>     >
>     > Dante Doménech wrote:
>     >> Isn't it time to start removing windows 32 support?
>     >>
>     > I believe that would be premature. There's still a sizeable fraction
>     > of users running Windows 7 [1], which itself likely has a sizeable
>     > fraction of x86 installations - no hard data though [2].
>
>     +1
>
>     Ralf
>
>
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