I was meaning to compose something to this effect, but Peter, you've put it perfectly.
Despite personally having moved off of 32-bit in the nineties, I agree with Peter and would rather see 32-bit remain for now. Might come in handy for the ARM port, too ;) --jake On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't see much of a driver to drop 32-bit support. I see little practical > benefit, and there will be a small fraction of the potential user > population > that you will drive away - I can't see the point in doing that when you > want to encourage all the users you can get. And areas in which you're > *different* from, say, Oracle are to be taken advantage of. > > I had this debate in my mind about Tribblix, and came very firmly down > on the side of keeping 32-bit support. At least for now. > > Looking elsewhere, Ubuntu serves as a good guide. I don't recall an > official decision, but as I recall they might think again about dropping > 32-bit support in 2016. I think I would personally be more > conservative than that. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
