Am 31.07.2012 08:54, schrieb Linda Walsh:
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
I can give you examples for 32bit applications I use and need on my Linux box: Skype moneyplex (online banking) Android SDK (probably a few more less important ones)
I don't care for the megabytes some 32bit libraries use on my systems harddisk if I can run the above applications successfully. That's a very small price.
Right...and if those apps ran 1% slower (IF), due to virtualization, you probably wouldn't notice it, right?
Actually I have no idea at all what's the problem with the current approach. I might have missed the point in the earlier discussion but I see no problem which needs fixing. But setting up one or more virtual machines just to run a 32bit application is overkill even if performance is not critical.
Still Mozilla is dragging their feet on 64 bit support on Windows -- but that didn't stop their directories from being virtualized nor the 32-bit program directories being moved.
Interesting how they didn't create the roadblocks on linux as they have on Windows...
You are talking about Mozilla? Then because I and other Linux fellows from other dists have worked hard to make 64bit builds of Mozilla as soon as possible. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org