On 9/7/19 8:44 PM, Victor V. Shkamerda wrote: > There are reasons why using x86_64 kernel with i686 userland might be a better option. Because i686 has tons of unresolved bugs: it has no upstream support, no maintainers and even testers with real hardware. Do **YOU** want to be a i686-arch Linux kernel maintainer? > In such case using i686 userland on a x86_64 kernel provides much more free memory than using 64-bit userland. And no security at all due to absent ASLR support. > And of course there is still an option to switch to another OS. Another GNU/Linux distributions have either dropped i686 support (Arch), or they will do it soon (Ubuntu). -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
