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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] switch from 32bit opensuse to 64bit
From:       Linda Walsh <suse () tlinx ! org>
Date:       2014-03-12 21:32:19
Message-ID: 5320D263.80301 () tlinx ! org
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Per Jessen wrote:
> Paul Neuwirth wrote:
>
> > Hallo,
> > I accidently installed 32 bit opensuse on several machines.
> > Is there an easy way to switch to 64bit? such as adding 86_64 repos
> > and zypper --dup --allow-architecture-change (unfortunately this
> > option doesn't exist)?
> > Any hints?
> > A notice in the setup, that a 32bit os is going to be installed on a
> > 64bit system would be very nice...
>
> :-) It might be intentional.  32bit apps use less memory, if you run a
> lot of them, there's more room with a 32bit os.
Would be easy to tell -- if the user has >=8G, go for 64-bit, else
ask?


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