I’ve been using 64-bit Linux distributions on the servers for a while now, but was reluctant to put one on my laptop. I’ve tried a couple of times many years ago, and found that there were all sorts of weird issues.
Yesterday, with a little push from my brother, Google, and Slashdot, I’ve decided to give it another go. 64-bit Fedora 24 is now on my laptop and I am carefully exploring it. So far, so good.
I guess I won’t have to worry about Year 2038 Problem after all.
Now that 64 bit is standard, is the next standard to be 96 o r128 bits?
I think the 64-bit will last us for a while. When that won’t be enough, we might come up with a completely different approach :)