Petite Linux 64bit supoort?

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Hello,

lately I looked for a linux distro with enlightment, and because i like OpenSUSE really I found on there site a link to Petite Linux. I was really impressed about the project but then I saw that there was only a x86 build.

As I have on my laptop and my PC over 4GB of RAM and I use a lot of applications which benefit from a 64bit system thus was a bit disappointing...

 

So will there be a 64bit build of Petite Linux in the near future?

Sincerely,

Thomas

[vatsers]

Hello Thomas,

I'm glad you liked petite linux. However since enlightenment is going to be "released" as of 21st December, there are already motions to add an official repository to openSUSE. This will enable you to add enlightenment to any openSUSE installation, 32bit or 64bit quite easily.

On your question of whether I plan a 64bit version, the answer is no I'm afraid.

However I'm curious as to what you believe will benefit from the 64bit system.

On current petite linux, you can easily install the "pae" kernel instead of the default, which allows your system to access more than 3G ram. Each process itself cannot surpass the 3G limit, however, I can't think of anything that would/could/should use that much memory, apart from a mysql server or similar. Certainly not anything you would run on a desktop machine !

Thanks,

Robert

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Hello Roberts,

thanks for your fast answer. Thanks to the Nightly build repos I'm testing already e17 (Alpha7 at the moment) and I'm quite amazed about this window manager.
However, i thought a distro which is designed for a window manager and its tools will be lighter and more efficient and I would appreciate these properties on my laptop.

The benefits I thought too were:
- On 64Bit Systems you can build the whole distro with CPU extensions enabled (such as SSE# or AVX) which will give some applications performance boost. (And as I haven't the time to build my own distro (Linux from Scratch or Gentoo) I looked for for one which fits my needs almost perfectly :))
- As I work a lot with Blender or GIMP/Inkscape, and Rendering and image editing is not only time consuming, it requires a lot of memory too. So 3Gb per process may be a limit :)

Btw. versus all odds I actually use the mySQL and postgreSQL server, but only for testing purpose and development, so this wouldn't be the problem :)

Sincerely,

Thomas

[Thomas Lamprecht]

*Robert, sorry I should check my text after i wrote it :)

[vatsers]

Hi Thomas,

It'd be interesting to see if you can get gimp, inkscape or blender to use 3G :)

On the mysql / postgresql, they can be configured to use high ram, where it's needed. Not that by default they will use anything in that range :)

In any case, I'm glad you found the nightly repo, although I thought it was renamed to "factory".

There should also be a stable repo which should contain the snapshots. With nightly builds you are risking picking up a buggy version. Not that with the stable you aren't, but it's slightly safer :)

There is no real advantage to running petite over opensuse with e17 on top.

petite was originally created because setting up e17 was tough, and the default theme sucked :)

Now, with both of those addressed, I will most likely disband the project anyway :)

Thanks :)