Re: x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:29:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:43:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > No, they should add amd64 as a foreign architecture.
>
> Should we do this by default for x32 in d-i? (Yes, I know d-i doesn't
> support x32 in other ways yet, but we might as well get started at some
> point.)
x32 has the following major use cases:
* vserver hosting
* underpowered netbooks
* get-any-last-percent-of-speed number crunching
At least the first two prefer a small installed size, which means a pure
system without two sets of binaries.
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