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On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:51:15 -0800, Giovanni Tirloni <[email protected]> wrote:
For the desktop-oriented Linux distros, 32-bit will be with us until such time as the entire web-browser stack is fully 32-bit (*ahem*, flash). To my knowledge that's the biggest thing in common usage preventing pure-64 deployments. As for the enterprise distros, as has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread 32-bit works much better in very RAM-constrained environments. They're a minority deployment target to be sure. Also, the 'old 32-bit hardware' market still has a couple years left in it, alas (I know I still have a couple of Pentium 4's kicking around). I expect we're at least one generation away from RedHat, SuSE, or Oracle even considering dropping 32-bit support completely. On our ESX cluster I don't believe we have a single 32-bit Linux system on it. In physical land we have... two that I can think of, but they're running on 32-bit hardware so they're excused. -- Greg -- Law of Probable Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. |
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