On 06/11/2012 03:05 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Reindl Harald<h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
the better road would be drop i686 completly over the long
the last 4 years not a single i686 package installed
and the world still turns - i686 was yesterday
I agree fully with the sentiment that no x86_64 capable computer
should be running 32-bit code. Everybody has more than 1G memory and
according to folks that know these things, that's where the kernel
starts thrashing the page tables.
Unfortunately there still are some 32-bit only mini laptops sold. A
friend bought one a one or two years ago much to my disgust. I thought
I was free of maintaining 32-bit system and then this thing shows up
forcing me to keep a second set of install images on hand. Yuck.
Sadly, before Fedora Smolt went down, it still showed more 32-bit than
64-bit installs. Fedora doesn't do enough to encourage everyone that
can run to to run it.
-wolfgang
No, everybody doesn't have more than 1G memory. Sad, me :(
F17 - Gnome 3 - 32-bit runs fine on my 1G memory box, especially after I
replaced the Fedora shipped kernel with 3.4 from kernel.org.
I also have 64-bit Fedora running on another box and I really can't tell
the difference.
John
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