On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 02:49:34PM +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
The Fedora project <http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-i686-Non-Blocking> has noticed that very few of its users seem to be on 32-bit systems nowadays. This was shown by a kernel bug that went undetected for two months, that prevented 32-bit x86 systems from even booting.
Time to relegate 32-bit machines to the junk pile?
Debian popcon (http://popcon.debian.org/) reports 50167 i386 users and 123570 amd64 users. While amd64 has well surpassed i386, i386 almost has two orders of magnitude more users than the next architecture (armel at 786 users), thus i386 (32-bit x86) is still well used. Personally I can't understand why anyone would want to use a 32-bit system for any serious computing having been programming on 64-bit systems for 17 years. Cheers Michael.