Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:36:35 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-01-16 00:20, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:51:08 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
 

Hum. That is not completely true, either. Some distributions stopped
supporting 32 bit machines.

 
The only one I came across was Debian. The machine itself was 64-bit
but our legacy code was 32-bit, as was Esri's ArcObjects. I think
Ubuntu 18.04 was the last release where you had a prayer of finding
32-bit Motif libraries and others. It's all fine to pass the 32-bit
flag to gcc but if you can't link the libs you're done.

 
openSUSE Tumbleweed still has a 32 bit version, I believe.

So it does. I don't know if I'd found it or if Debian was the first to
turn up and I used it. I probably still would have went with Debian. For a
production machine old, slow, stick-in-the-mud is good versus a rolling
distribution.