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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.