Adrian Kalla wrote:
W dniu 09/01/2015 o 12:11 AM, zeroleft pisze:
But, and I believe it's something similar for others, is because when a
machine has only 2GB of ram, (and life circumstances do not allow, at
this time, for memory upgrade or for simply buy a new PC), it probably
would be counterproductive try to run a 64-bit system in such modest
hardware.
I think it is unlikely you would loose perceived performance when
switching to 64 bit. But of course you would also not gain any.
On the other hand, your system would be compatible with all 32 and 64
bit applications.
W dniu 08/31/2015 o 10:10 PM, zeroleft pisze:
Just by taking a look at
https://l10n.mozilla-community.org/~akalla/unofficial/seamonkey/nightly/, you
could think that Adrian Kalla will not provide any more binaries for
SeaMonkey on Linux 32-bits...
You are right. There are four reasons why I needed to abandon 32 bit
Linux builds:
1. My CentOS 6 32bit virtual machine did get corrupted, and as I found
out, I had no backup of it.
2. My builds were taking too much space on the L10n server.
3. I needed CPU and RAM resources for Windows builds.
4. And the ultimate reason is Mozilla's switch to GTK3: there is no GTK3
for CentOS6 available (Mozilla seems to have produced own packages, but
afaics, they can't be found anywhere publicly - which is BTW a really
big shame, since there is now also no way to build an exact one-to-one
build to check, if Mozilla did have to include something in their builds
because of a National Security Letter...).
And there is no 32 bit version of RHEL7/CentOS7, which needs to be used
for SM 2.39+ builds (and my cross compile tries failed, and I have no
more time to invest into this issue).
-> 32 bit is dead. Long live 64 bit.
One reason I have for still wanting a 32 bit version is on an auxiliary
machine I use in my ham shack. That one is still a 32 bit
hyper-threaded machine. Quite adequate for the purpose and I can't
justify the cost of a newer machine. I only boot Linux on it, for the
most part, even though there is still an XP partition that rarely gets
used. I have the XP marked as a POS terminal, so it does still get some
security updates!
On the other hand, on my main machine which is 64 bit, I dual boot
between Windows 7/64 and Ubuntu 14.04/64. By default, Ubuntu 64 bit
doesn't install the 32 bit runtime. Now, even after trying to find all
the libraries in 32 bit form through the Ubuntu installer, I can't run
the 32 bit Seamonkey. There is a library it attempts to load that I
can't find in 32 bit form for Ubuntu. I hope we'll see a 64 bit build
of 2.35 soon after the 32 bit mainline. I have the machine setup to use
the same profile on both Win7 and Linux. Having Windows using 2.35 and
Linux use 2.33 will keep showing me the Seamonkey welcome to new version
screen.
So, I still have a desire to see both 32 and 64 bit versions.
Gordon
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