> There's still some 32 bit software (usually proprietary stuff, and/or libraries used by Wine). Wine is going to stop being an issue somewhat soon. The Wine d

> There's still some 32 bit software (usually proprietary stuff, and/or libraries used by Wine). Wine is going to stop being an issue somewhat soon. The Wine developers are adapting it to work more like Windows, by making even 32-bit applications call the 64-bit libraries. I expect that, not long after Wine switches to always using 64-bit libraries, distributions (probably starting with faster-moving ones like Fedora) will completely (or almost completely, leaving only glibc and its dependencies) drop the 32-bit libraries. And we're already close to the Y2038 deadline, which gives distributions another incentive to drop 32-bit libraries (instead of having to go through a migration to the 64-bit time API, similar to the migration to 64-bit file offsets we had some time ago).