On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:47:22 +0100, Adam Moss wrote: > Hiya, > > If someone's re-investigating/rebuilding most of the third-party libraries > anyway... > Isn't it a good time for the SL Linux client to go (probably exclusively) > 64-bit? This wasn't true 8 years ago and wasn't quite true 4 years ago, > but I think on balance it'd be a good and happy move in 2014.
Are you kidding ?... I, for one, am still using 32 bits Linux (with PAE enabled, to use the full RAM and not stay limited to 4Gb), and there is a damned good reason for it: many pieces of software I'm using are quite unhappy (read: buggy) when compiled for 64 bits (I could cite Gnome v2, which I'm still using given v3 went the same UI-dumbification path as the SL v2/3 viewer, Firefox v24+ & Co). If you wish to make 64 bits builds, then fine (and yes, it'd be nice to have a set of pre-built 64 bits libraries from LL), but it's really too soon to drop 32 bits support, especially under Linux... Henri. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
