Quoting Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de):
Michael Neuffer <neuffer@neuffer.info> writes:
For the next couple of years (hopefully not more then 10) we will
definitely need the biarch AMD64 until all of the applications
that people need will have migrated and the 32bit apps that people
use will wither.
SuSe and RH are not supporting 32bit amd64 above the very rudimentary
ability to run stuff. So there is a realy big community thats going to
push commercial programs to be 64bit.
OK, lets do a reality check here:
How much more then the ability to run 64bit "stuff" do we need ?
I don't think we really need or want anything else. Any new development
should be 64bit. We just want to make the migration path a smooth
and painless as possible. Ideally it should be completely transparent
to the _enduser_, but not necessarly for the admin as well. Those who
wield the root should be expected to able to smooth a few rough edges.