On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > >From a related thread: > > "One of these days we need to fix all this ... basically migrate to > purely > 64-bit file offset platforms. It should "just work" without any changes > needed at that point, if they do it right (which is not a given). If > old > programs compiled on legacy 32-bit file offset platforms break, so be > it. " > > Dont'cha just love it -- the "fix" is just to say "screw it" to anybody > who's not running 64-bit.
That's not really a solution. 64-bit has its own set of issues. > Hasn't been fixed in years, although it's been known about for years. > Robert, if your fix is that simple, then why the FSCK haven't the good > folks at Evolution, Gnome, or Ubuntu done it? I'm not saying it is simple. I'm saying it might be and that no one has tried it (I have see that before.) On the other hand, it could be that the solution is significantly more difficult. I don't know. > Just tell everyone to throw away every computer that isn't 64-bit. Why > do they even bother to produce a 32-bit version, then? > > (can you tell I'm exhausted and irritated? Been up most of the past two > nights with a different computer problem for ByteWorks) Might want to take a break. Regards, - Robert -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
