On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 01:25:20AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > 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. Just because it's not obvious to you doesn't mean there aren't reasons. On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:37:45AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > 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 Well, that's not very accurate. The decision that was actually made was to *follow up* this cycle and evaluate whether it was practical to direct users to 64-bit images by default. There are some power and memory penalties on lower-end systems when running in 64-bit, which means there are still trade-offs that need to be evaluated when choosing the default. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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