On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 13:27 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 18:06:02 -0000, > vvs vvs <vvs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, thanks. Sadly, I see that I have no choice but to switch to another > > distribution even though I'm using 64-bit > > CPU. It's just that the memory can't be upgraded and buying new computer > > just to keep running Fedora is not viable. > > It's 12 years old, is in good condition and I'm completely satisfied with > > its performance for my needs. I wonder > > what owners of thin terminals will do if they used Fedora, especially if > > there are many of them. The cost of > > upgrading some old terminals for some school can be too high. > > It is probably very rare for someone to have just enough memory for a system > to > run reasonably using i686, but tank when using x86_64. If there is some > key code that causes the problem, you might be able to rebuild that code to > use 32 bit addresses and save enough memory to make things work reasonably. Yeah, I've recently switched an old Atom A330[0] based system[1] with 2 GB of RAM (that's the maximum it supports) from a 32-bit to a 64-bit based distro (after finding out it can actually run 64-bit code). It has been running just fine and actually feels a bit faster now.
[0] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/35641/intel-atom-processor-330-1m-cache-1-60-ghz-533-mhz-fsb.html [1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/42491/intel-desktop-board-d945gclf2.html > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > based _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
