On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 8:19:36 AM UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: > > Its of course possible; However you can run a 32-bit VM just fine on a > 64-bit OS but not vice versa. > > I think many windows users are still on 32-bit since windows updates > preserve the bitwidth. And they generally don't know the difference, so its > easier to just have one VM that works for everyone. Saves disk space + ram, > too (unless you need more than 4gb for computations, at which point you > aren't a casual user) > And the non-casual users must turn away from Sage then? :-)
there are, in fact situations that need 64-bit Linux just because there is nothing available for 32-bit (think about Java dependencies) E.g. there are R packages that need 64 bits, full stop. (see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-cloud/BGiFOlXjgwI/qVgVdfBcCwAJ) While not directly relevant to Sage, indirectly it is. Then, 32-bit Windows is seldom installed on new machines any more, so there are more 64-bit machines every year... > > > > > On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 9:05:14 AM UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> Is there any reason (besides lack of manpower) that only 32-bin OVA is >> provided? >> IMHO 64-bit would be more popular and useful. >> >> (It seems to be hard, by the way, to find a working 64-bit Linux >> VirtualBox image; yesterday I ended up installing >> 64-bit Linux into a VirtualBox from an ISO Linux install image) >> >> Dima >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
