Messages in this thread | | | From | Ondrej Zary <> | Subject | Re: Drop support for x86-32 | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:51:27 +0200 |
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On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:22:07 wbrana wrote: > x86-32 > - is deprecated since Linux supports X32. > - will slow down adoption of X32 - there won't be X32 versions of many > software - if new ABI was added, old one should be removed > - wastes time of developers who can spend their time supporting X32 > instead of x86-32 or support x86-64 only as 99% of users will be able > to run x86-64 software if x86-32 will be dropped > - wouldn't be dropped this year, but there should be plan when it will > be dropped e.g. when Windows 9 will be released > > On 8/23/12, Martin Nybo Andersen <tweek@tweek.dk> wrote: > > Why?
Please stop trolling (and top-posting). Linux is NOT Windows where people must throw out their hardware because it stopped working in new version. There are millions of 32-bit x86 machines all around the world. If new Windows will not run on them, Linux will.
-- Ondrej Zary
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