kelsey hudson wrote:
Either way, I chalk it up to stupidity. There isn't a valid reason for
it, except, "waaaah, I didn't write portable code!" Never assume i386 is
going to be the only thing your code will run on. i386 could disappear
tomorrow and your code needs to be able to handle it.
I don't know, maybe I just have no tolerance for stupidity anymore.
It's not stupidity, it's the market. What is the market for desktop
Linux? Maybe 5% of PC's? And out of that, how many are 64-bit? I can't
even guess, but I'm a power user and I'm still on 32-bit. My laptop is
about 3 years old with a 32-bit processor. Even brand new laptops are
mostly 32-bit (Intel Core Duo is NOT 64 bit {note the missing two}, nor
is Celeron or Pentium Centino. AMD doesn't have much of the market
there). My desktop is also 32-bit and seeing as it runs fine the way it
is I probably won't upgrade until it either breaks or I have an
overwhelming need for speed, which will be in about a year.
So why should anyone develop software for a market that is small and
will stay small? I think we are lucky Adobe did anything for Linux. And
the people making the software are not stupid. See the blog at
<http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/> to see what they have to deal with
to get stuff work on Linux.
Gus
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