Peter,
1. Yes. Many end users still own old 32-bit Pentium 4-based desktops and
laptops.
2. Yes, OI could ship 64-bit only applications/drivers/etc.
OI has recent binary core snapshots and FOSS packages supporting 32-bit
platforms. Having a 64-bit only core distro snapshot and packages is just
forward thinking. Package maintainers can support either selection - but it is
no longer the norm to support both selections (32/64-bit packaging) if the
demand is not justified).
- Ken
On Saturday, February 11, 2017 8:29 AM, Peter Tribble
<peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote:
Something that came up in discussion while we were at FOSDEM was
whether it's safe to ship 64-bit only applications in OpenIndiana.
Which begs the obvious question - is anyone running OpenIndiana on
hardware that isn't 64-bit? Please reply if so.
To check, use the isainfo command. If "isainfo -k" returns "amd64"
(or "isainfo -b" returns "64") then you're running in 64-bit and should
happily ignore this question. If you get "i386" or "32" respectively
then it would be nice to know.
Thanks,
--
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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