Hello Fedora!
As you may or may not be aware, there is an active discussion on the development side as
to whether or not we continue to support the x86 architecture.
There are a lot of exciting things happening within the Fedora community on top of the
amazing and significant effort we put into making sure Fedora is stable, robust, and on
the bleeding edge. And unfortunately, the contributors doing all of this work are a
limited resource so we have to prioritize where we focus our attention.
Since x86-based hardware isn't very common anymore, it is understandable that most of
the development side of the community is ready to move on and focus on other things that
directly impact them. However, some of us still have a desire to see Fedora continue to
support this venerable architecture.
Is x86 support still important to you? If so, then come join us! We need all of the help
we can get. Not a developer? No problem! We still need people with hardware to help us
evaluate software.
For those interested, you can find more information on the x86 Architectures page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/x86
You can also find us on the x86 mailing list:
x86(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/x86.lists.fedoraproject.org/
We're also holding an organizational meeting on IRC in #fedora-meeting-2 on September
6th at 1900 UTC. We'd love to see you there!
jeff
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Jeff Backus
jeff.backus(a)gmail.com
http://github.com/jsbackus
http://gitlab.com/jsbackus