---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jorge Gonçalves <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:31 AM Subject: X32 ABI build To: [email protected]
Hi! First, let me congratulate Devuan for the good job it has been doing so far. I have one suggestion for you to think about. Since, in a sense, Devuan tries to explore different ways to run a O.S. than the mainstream distro's out there, why not have packages for the X32 ABI?? https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/x32 Since the Debian Stretch release, the debian X32 port has been almost without maintenance, only works now with sid (unstable), and some packages are beginning to break things around, like for instance, that one, yes, you guess, systemd. Unfortunately, the (few) X32 maintainers only work on the packages they need for their own use cases, and even when I send them some patches and ideas to improve, they don't care about, they say they have no time! So, debian X32 has been partially broken since June. I'm still able to run a very nice, fast and full functional Xfce4 desktop by downgrading systemd, but every month some other packages went broken, so this is no solution. I have no doubt that X32 ABI is the only one that can squeeze that last mile of performance from the x86/amd64 architecture. (and, as a side effect, the cpu runs cooler than with amd64, something important on notebooks) Unfortunately, as in many other things in life, the industry as chosen not the best technology but the one that gives them more profits, in this case the amd64, that generally incentives a hardware upgrade. And, of course, if a Devuan X32 build receives green light, you can count on me for all the initial effort needed to make it happen. My best regards, Jorge Manuel _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
