apostolos pantazis wrote: > These days it seems to be getting harder and harder finding quality > support under 32 BIT; In some cases vendors have flat out specified > that the future of support under 32 BIT is grim. Yet the enterprises > of the world are still running 32 BIT and I am wondering: what is your > experience in regards to the future of 32 BIT? These days 64 BIT > hardware seems cheap enough almost making it tempting to begin > thinking about a migration. The Linux Kernel is mature enough in its > 64 bit state to support enterprise grade loads. what is everybody > doing out there? I am trying to get a feel for the direction of the > industry. Is is too early for 64 bit? your input is appreciated.
Are we talking workstation or server ? I haven't "played" with 64 bit workstation for 1.5 years, and back then the issues were things like flash pluggins that weren't available, but I expect that to be changed by now. In the server world I only ran into two issues: -64 bit on top of a VM was an issue (I believe that too has been resolved now) -All the in house little c programs that had been working great for the past 10 years needed to be reviewed, often, just recompiled with the right option, but sometimes some tweaking of some of the variables. Beyond that... everything just worked fine. -- Yves. http://www.sollers.ca/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
