How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?

[Kilz _]

>From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com>
>To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:49:10 -0700
>
>On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 12:52:34AM -0500, Kilz _ wrote:
> > >On Fri, Sep 22 Matt Zimmerman wrote I'm not an industry analyst; I'm 
>sure
> > >you could find predictions based on real data which would be better 
>than
> > >any answer I can give at the moment.
> >
> > Yes, but I'm interested in what you as a Ubuntu developer think, because
> > industry analysts dont develop for Ubuntu and have very little top do 
>with
> > deciding when to give the 64bit version more attention.
>
>My personal feeling is that, at present, our development resources are
>better spent on improvements which benefit all desktop users than on 
>browser
>plugins and WINE for x86_64.
>
> > >On Fri, Sep 22 Matt Zimmerman You are correct.  However, that is not
> > >Ubuntu's only goal (if it were,
> > >Ubuntu would look a lot more like Windows), and there are many
> > >complementary
> > >ways of achieving it.
> >
> > One of the reason I asked that is because there is a sticky in the 64bit
> > section of the forums. The users have listed what is conciderd by users 
>to
> > be the key missing things. Are the developers aware of this sticky? 
>Maybe
> > multiarch isnt in the plans for a few versions yet, if at all. Is it
> > possible to get those applications if we cant have multiarch? I dont 
>really
> > see newbies doing some of the things required to install some of the 
>stuff.
>
>I cannot speak for all Ubuntu developers, but I am personally unaware of
>this page.
>
>Regarding multiarch and specific 32-bit applications, I think I've 
>explained
>the situation in depth already.
>
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So I can expect Ubuntu 64bit to look good but not work to good?

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