Kevin Kofler wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I really like this idea, since it provides most of the benefit of 64 bit
> operation without needing to have both the 32 and 64 bit libraries
The real solution for that is to just install the 64-bit libraries only (as
is already the default for 64-bit Fedora - you only get legacy 32-bit
libraries if you explicitly install 32-bit stuff). 32-bit userspace on a
64-bit kernel is just an obsolete workaround.
Some people are paid to develop system software, some of us have to work for a
living.[1] Hybrid systems are a PITA, if there's a need to work with 32 bit it's
vastly easier to run a 32 bit system than to try to avoid behavioral differences
between 32 and 64 bit software even when built from the same source.
[1] I spent several decades developing system software at a Fortune-10 Corporate
Research Center, it's a better gig than being a test pilot in a bubble factory.
At least unless management suffers an epidemic of cranialanalism about working
conditions.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot