14 DAY TRIAL // A few hours ago, OpenMandriva dropped a tweet on their official Twitter account asking users their opinion on the matter of maintaining the i586 (32-bit) builds of the distribution or not, which was discussed a while ago.
Long story short, OpenMandriva asked users on June 6 if they should keep supporting i586 (32-bit) builds of the operating system for the upcoming version, OpenMandriva 2014.2. Votes on the matter were open to the community until June 12, 2015.
Today, June 13, we can report that the votes are in, and it looks like 67% of users believe that OpenMandriva should still maintain and provide 32-bit builds of the Linux distribution.
"Community voted and the results show that 67% believe that is a good idea to keep supporting the 32bit architecture," says João Patrício in an update to the blog post from June 5.
It would appear that many people are still installing Linux distributions on legacy hardware. "OMA has a lot of users in countries where 32bit architecture are very common," as João Patrício noted in the update paragraph of the respective blog article from the project's website.
Should OpenMandriva keep supporting i586? The Members and community votes are here, what's your opinion?
— OpenMandriva (@OpenMandrivaOrg) June 13, 2015