Since a few years many operating systems are progressively abandoning 32 bit / i386 support.
We have discussed about, internally, a few times, and generally speaking we are in favour of continuing to support 32 bit systems.

However, as a matter of facts, it is also becoming increasingly difficult to support those old systems, partly because of RAM constraints (unlike Linux pae support in FreeBSD is limited), increased size of software, particularly web browsers, and other less important things.

So, we want to ear from you, yes you: are you using a 32 bit GhostBSD ?

if yes, can you tell us which hardware are you using ? (namely CPU, amount of RAM, graphics and network adapter)
Also, feel free to comment extensively about, we want to know! Thanks.

well, it seems there a not much i386 users out there ...

I'm not using it and I never will.

NevilleGoddard wrote:I'm not using it and I never will.

I have used nearly all x86 arch, 8 bit (z80) 16 bit (80186/80286), 32bit (from 80386 up to Xeon ... ) , 64 bit ... I skipped the 4 bit CPUs

You've certainly done a lot of computing my friend.

The first computer I had was a Windows Me box with 66Mb of RAM 667 MHz CPU and a Quantum Fireball hard drive. I don't know honestly how many bit that was.

It still runs.

My next box is also still running is a Dell desktop which had 32bit (cough, cough, hack, choke) Vista.

Then I discovered Zorin 5.2 which had 64bit for free in 2012 and haven't gone back since.

I would only consider 32bit if I needed it to run something on Wine.

NevilleGoddard wrote:

You've certainly done a lot of computing my friend.

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Yep, I did and enjoyed it.

Ironically what drove me into the "computer programming" has been the idea that I could "drive" a machine at my own desire, expecting no less than a "perfect" result.

expecting no less than a "perfect" result.

Yes, programmings not easy. Computers always do exactly what do tell them do not always what you want them to do.

Kraileth and ericbsd pointed me in the right direction with Python.

I've now got more time to spend looking into it as well as the GhostBSD wik.

Looking forward to it.

I can go either way, I got a dual celeron w/4 gigs of ram

If you've got 4 gigs of RAM, 64bit may run better, but I'm not sure.

There probably won't be much difference, but you're right with 4 gig you can go either way.

You're correct.

i386, IIRC, can only utilize 3 MB of ram maximum, while the 64 bit will use the whole amount.