On Friday 11 January 2008, Martin Schlander wrote:
Den Friday 11 January 2008 16:55:28 skrev peter nikolic:
This theme has been discussed again and again.. and again. Complain to Sun Microsystems! .. or accept that "64-bit is only for servers".. as Adobe, MS and Sun seem to have agreed upon..
Errrrrrrrrrrr have you tried buying an 32 bit CPU recently ? think you may be in for a shock
Most x86_64 CPUs support 32-bit very well you know. Don't all these new shiny 64-bit boxes come with 32-bit MS Vista? That should be an indication of how MS and PC-vendors feel about 64-bit on the desktop.
I run 64-bit openSUSE myself on my primary box and have for some time. So I'm not agitating against doing that. I'm just slightly annoyed that people act all surprised and complain when they run into some problems with proprietary software I guess. Don't understand how anyone remotely involved can still be surprised that these issues exist.
Maybe I was a bit harsh though, I'll try to keep my bitterness off the list. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Yes i know that but that was not what i said yes you can run 32 bit on 64 bit systems but WHY should we ? , 64 bit is now the defacto CPU supplied by almost every motherboard maker going apart from the ultra low energy types ( ITA ect ) . I know we also keep getting the reply blame Sun and Co for the lack of 64 bit support in browsers for things like java why ? . It strikes me that maybe just maybe we are not biledgerent (SP) enough and maybe we need to shout somewhat louder than we are just my thoughts but maybe a direction we should look at heading .. Pete . -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha3. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org