Am 07.12.2013 19:15, schrieb Felix Miata:
1-Requires more installation space due to need for various 32 bit libs 2-More RAM used per app and by OS
Those two are also important for virtual machines (appliances for example).
3-Lack of various native 64 bit plugins and certain apps 4-Lack of apparent speed benefit in popular apps
64bit is never faster. It just allows to address more memory, but unless you need to address way more than a few GB, it does not bring any benefits. So yeah, go ahead and drop support for i586. One more way to make openSUSE less useful... -- Stefan Seyfried "If your lighter runs out of fluid or flint and stops making fire, and you can't be bothered to figure out about lighter fluid or flint, that is not Zippo's fault." -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org