[OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit support in OpenIndiana Hipster

[Jacob Ritorto]

  I was meaning to compose something to this effect, but Peter, you've put
it perfectly.

  Despite personally having moved off of 32-bit in the nineties, I agree
with Peter and would rather see 32-bit remain for now.

  Might come in handy for the ARM port, too ;)

--jake

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I don't see much of a driver to drop 32-bit support. I see little practical
> benefit, and there will be a small fraction of the potential user
> population
> that you will drive away - I can't see the point in doing that when you
> want to encourage all the users you can get. And areas in which you're
> *different* from, say, Oracle are to be taken advantage of.
>
> I had this debate in my mind about Tribblix, and came very firmly down
> on the side of keeping 32-bit support. At least for now.
>
> Looking elsewhere, Ubuntu serves as a good guide. I don't recall an
> official decision, but as I recall they might think again about dropping
> 32-bit support in 2016. I think I would personally be more
> conservative than that.