On 9/7/19 8:44 PM, Victor V. Shkamerda wrote:
> There are reasons why using x86_64 kernel with i686 userland might be a 
> better option.

Because i686 has tons of unresolved bugs: it has no upstream support, no
maintainers and even testers with real hardware.

Do **YOU** want to be a i686-arch Linux kernel maintainer?

> In such case using i686 userland on a x86_64 kernel provides much more free 
> memory than using 64-bit userland.

And no security at all due to absent ASLR support.

> And of course there is still an option to switch to another OS.

Another GNU/Linux distributions have either dropped i686 support (Arch),
or they will do it soon (Ubuntu).

-- 
Sincerely,
  Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org)
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