Hi I was interested in African universities and supporting 32 bit until about 2-3 years ago.
It is less than 1% of (science) students' laptops now, in my experience. And all institutional machines are 64bit. Regards, Jan On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 21:19, Thierry <sage-googlesu...@lma.metelu.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 08:37:52AM -0800, William Stein wrote: > [...] > > > > > > Amazing. Does anybody reading this use 32-bit Linux? > > Not using on a daily basis, but in in october 2021, i built a Sage > Debian Live 32 bit because Nicolas was going to teach Sage in Burkina > Faso (and i was teaching Sage in Algeria a couple of weeks later), and > to be honest, cygwin is too slow to be used during such a tutorial. The > image can still be downloaded at: > > > https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~monteil/hebergement/bobo/2021-10-16-sage_9.4-debian_bullseye-live_20210407.img > sha256sum > <https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~monteil/hebergement/bobo/2021-10-16-sage_9.4-debian_bullseye-live_20210407.imgsha256sum> > : 7b6b9c6bc57bfd177286d20e7878e456aec67cda398d88bf3a43f291badbeaf9 > > Such Sage binaries are built within a qemu VM. > > Note that not all optional packages are installed (some failed to > build), and some doctests are failing, which is why i did not release it > (and because i still want to fix some things in the SDL itself). But it > still contains most of Sage. > > What seems clear to me is that, as i stopped to release SDL for a while, > the number of 32bit issues increased (by lack of pressure), also, most > upstream projects seem not test fo 32bit architecture anymore. > > Apparently, there was at least one student with a 32bit laptop in > Burkina Faso, none in Algeria. The next SDL will be 64bit, though we > could continue to use my qemu machinery to build and test for 32bit > arcitecture. > > Ciao, > Thierry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/20220118191939.GA2005%40metelu.net > . > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAg%3Dp_2pAonURDzD_MDffDbXfX042-AgR0-vUMgX6_T%2B%2BfaKfg%40mail.gmail.com.
