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The road to Zettalinux

Posted Sep 22, 2022 0:44 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: The road to Zettalinux by linuxrocks123
Parent article: The road to Zettalinux

Yeah, x32 (amd64ilp32) was a nice thing, especially to reduce web browser memory consumption by naturally giving it only 4 GiB minus a few KiB to work in, while at the same time letting it keep the wider and more registers amd64 has.

Wish it had taken off better. I did run it on a machine until I switched all my Debian systems from sid to bullseye to avoid the UsrMove fiasco.

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The road to Zettalinux

Posted Sep 22, 2022 1:41 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

Avoiding usrmerge is fairly easy using equivs and or the usrmerge config file.

https://github.com/jwilk/usr-is-not-merged/
https://sources.debian.org/src/usrmerge/31/debian/README....

The road to Zettalinux

Posted Sep 22, 2022 15:12 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

Yeah, but it’s unsupported now, which is a PITA. Plus, it will not work right, but kilobyte already wrote about that enough and is… suppressed.

I even consider the forced UsrMove a violation of SC§4, but what do I know…