On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:34:37PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > I'd love to hear of compelling reasons for not just using 64bit. > The only *real* case I've heard put forward so far has been > "we're locked in to using some binary kernel module, and there's > no 64bit version of it". Though these days, even that should be > less true than it used to be. The only argument I've heard against using 32-bit compat libraries on 64bit is the desire to reduce the footprint of installed apps to preclude any security issues that may arise through them being installed. I don't buy it much myself, but there you go. That said, not all ISVs are willing to do the port/build to 64bits if their apps can't benefit from being 64-bit themselves. It only adds to the ISV's devel and testing requirements for no noticable gain in marketshare. Here's where pure open source software is a huge win, as we're not beholden to an ISV to rebuild/retest on their schedule. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
