On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 13:27 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 18:06:02 -0000,
vvs vvs <vvs009(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, thanks. Sadly, I see that I have no choice but to switch to another
distribution even though I'm using 64-bit
> CPU. It's just that the memory can't be upgraded and buying new computer
just to keep running Fedora is not viable.
> It's 12 years old, is in good condition and I'm completely satisfied with
its performance for my needs. I wonder
> what owners of thin terminals will do if they used Fedora, especially if there are
many of them. The cost of
> upgrading some old terminals for some school can be too high.
It is probably very rare for someone to have just enough memory for a system to
run reasonably using i686, but tank when using x86_64. If there is some
key code that causes the problem, you might be able to rebuild that code to
use 32 bit addresses and save enough memory to make things work reasonably.
Yeah,
I've recently switched an old Atom A330[0] based system[1] with 2 GB of RAM
(that's the maximum it supports)
from a 32-bit to a 64-bit based distro (after finding out it can actually run 64-bit
code).
It has been running just fine and actually feels a bit faster now.
[0]
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/35641/intel-atom-pro...
[1]
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/42491/intel-desktop-...
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