On 09/01/2012 08:25, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:08:56AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: >>> Sounds like he was asking you to name these new 32-bit only x86 >>> systems that are still being produced and sold. >> >> Buying a nice new 64bit system for the purpose of running ancient 32bit >> programs at high speed is still a lot more common than we would hope. > > Even worse: there's a lot of people pushing 32 bit for no obvious reason. > > Go to http://ubuntu.com, look at the default download. It's 32-bit. Going > further, in download options, there's "32-bit (recommended)".
Not for long. Phoronix reported[1] that on the last day of UDS, it was mentioned that the recommended download for 12.04 will be 64-bit. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxMTQ -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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