Leaflet@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoThe perils of transition to 64-bit time_tblogs.gentoo.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down10
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minus-squareCarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI might be selfish for saying so, but if anyone set up their mind to run anything on a 32-bit system after 2038, they must care enough to compile themselves, right? Any binaries compiled today will be EOL by then.
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI think this is a reasonable assumption, but my experience suggests it will absolutely not be true for a lot of proprietary software. That being said, that stuff will only be supported on rhel which will bend over backwards to keep it sort of working somehow.
I might be selfish for saying so, but if anyone set up their mind to run anything on a 32-bit system after 2038, they must care enough to compile themselves, right? Any binaries compiled today will be EOL by then.
I think this is a reasonable assumption, but my experience suggests it will absolutely not be true for a lot of proprietary software.
That being said, that stuff will only be supported on rhel which will bend over backwards to keep it sort of working somehow.