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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] switch from 32bit opensuse to 64bit
From:       Per Jessen <per () computer ! org>
Date:       2014-03-13 7:41:37
Message-ID: lfrnft$9h0$2 () saturn ! local ! net
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Linda Walsh wrote:

> 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?
> 

Yep, not a bad idea. 



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