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The first OS to drop 32 bit support, thus eg fixing the year 2038 problem the easy way. Not sure if any others will though, at least not until arm64 is more wid
by justincormack 12y ago
The first OS to drop 32 bit support, thus eg fixing the year 2038 problem the easy way. Not sure if any others will though, at least not until arm64 is more widespread.
- currysausage 12y ago> The first OS to drop 32 bit support The first? What about Windows Server 2008 R2? Or PC-BSD 9.2?
- gonzo 12y agoOr freenas or soon, pfSense.
- sspiff 12y agoI'm not sure PC-BSD qualifies as an OS unto itself. Last time I checked, they were mostly a FreeBSD distribution with a bunch of user friendly sugar coating on top (an easier package manager, default installation includes a fully configured desktop environment, ...) I don't mean that as a bad thing - I used PC-BSD for a while and it was great. Not everyone needs to reinvent the wheel and reimplement drivers etc. But I see it more as a distribution of an OS than an OS.
- lflux 12y agoOpenBSD fixed it in 5.5 released in May.
- bch 12y agoOver 2 years ago NetBSD released[1] the 6th major version and introduced 64-bit time_t[2]. [1] http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/ http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/ [2] http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.html http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.html
- justincormack 12y agoYes, that was the more difficult way I was contrasting with just dropping 32 bit support...