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Fedora To Stop Providing i686 Kernels, Might Also Drop 32-Bit Modular/Everything Repos
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Guest repliedOriginally posted by scottishduck View Post
There are printers that don't just use CUPS?
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Guest repliedOriginally posted by oiaohm View Post
There are a few things about this. Printer drivers don't need multilib. Cups running in a 32 bit container/chroot with device access works Most of these printer drivers only require a very bare bones setup of libc and sometimes libstdc++.. Hard reality is these printers most likely could be wrapped in QEMU user mode without binfmt_misc the performance overhead on printers is not that much of a killer.
Also this is kind of horrible thinking that HP manages for their printers to provide fully 64 bit drivers and those who have reversed engineered so making printer drivers for Linux are 64 bit. This is case you really do need to stop buying printer to use with Linux that don't provide full 64 bit drivers.
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Originally posted by DoMiNeLa10 View PostI'm talking about printer drivers provided as a binary. These just won't work without multilib set up.
Also this is kind of horrible thinking that HP manages for their printers to provide fully 64 bit drivers and those who have reversed engineered so making printer drivers for Linux are 64 bit. This is case you really do need to stop buying printer to use with Linux that don't provide full 64 bit drivers.
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Originally posted by DoMiNeLa10 View Post
I'm talking about printer drivers provided as a binary. These just won't work without multilib set up.
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Originally posted by r08z View PostI think the bigger question is when is steam going to start shipping 64bit clients and why the hell are 99% of games still being made in 32bit?
If you buy Unity Engine based games, is guaranteed they have a 64bit version, unless the developer believes Linux users only have access to old Intel Atom powered netbooks.
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Guest repliedOriginally posted by nanonyme View Post
Are you talking of some installer? Proprietary drivers themselves are pretty much guaranteed to be multilib and there's a 64bit part that works if system doesn't support multilib.
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Originally posted by DoMiNeLa10 View Post
Multilib isn't just about Steam games. There are plenty of other things that need it, including proprietary drivers that never got 64-bit releases.
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Guest repliedOriginally posted by nanonyme View Post
It might not actually be that bad at this point. It's pretty easy to enable Flathub and install Steam as Flatpak on Fedora. Now what would really be a bold move is removing 32bit support from 64bit kernels to reduce attack surface.
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