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All 32-bit Versions of PixInsight Now Officially Obsolete

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Juan Conejero:
This has already been said for some time on this forum, but we want to make it official today: All 32-bit versions of PixInsight are now declared obsolete on all supported platforms.

The practical consequences of this announcement are as follows:

- Starting from version 1.8.0 of the PixInsight Core application, no 32-bit version of PixInsight will be released anymore for FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS X. PixInsight 1.8.0 is due before the end of July September November December 2012.

- A 32-bit version of PixInsight Core 1.8.0 will be released for Windows. This is exclusively to support existing laptop and desktop computers running 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Given that the Windows operating system is not free, we don't want to force any of our users to waste money updating their operating systems. However, this situation is temporary and does not change the fact that the 32-bit version of PixInsight 1.8.0 for Windows is declared obsolete. We'll probably discontinue it during early 2013.

We encourage all of our FreeBSD, Linux and Windows users to update their operating systems to 64-bit versions. Leading edge applications require reasonably up-to-date system software and hardware. PixInsight has to move forward, and we really cannot invest more resources in trying to fix and explain recurring out-of-memory problems, which are due to obsolete systems being used to perform memory intensive image processing tasks. Note that Mac OS X is already a 64-bit operating system since version 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Josh Lake:
This makes a lot of sense. To the future!  :D

Yuriy Toropin:
It will be great if the latest (even obsolete) 32 bit versions will still be available for download for licensed customers.

shurik:
well..I am sorry for the comparison but this is just like any corporation abandoning their old customers.."bill gates", iphone, etc., all of a sudden you are forced to buy a new device to continue to use updated product, switching from 32 bit to 64 bit windows is not a trivial task, if you have a massive amount of software and data that was adapted to 32 bit, these users are doomed..I understand you must move on with new developments...but what are we supposed to do , I cant sacrifice my computer just to catch up with Pixinsight, I wish I had a leisure to have separate machine... but I just wonder if its just me or there others who are concerned...

thanks, Alex

georg.viehoever:
Even Microsoft abandons WinXP soon... http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/help/end-support. As a developer you just dont want to waste resources on a platform that were designed when internet, multicore, 1GB RAM, viruses.. were considered exotic. And as a user you may want to benefit from the progress of the last 11 years (such as connectivity multicore performance, RAM size, security, ...).

At some point it just makes sense forward (XP was first released in 2001). Plus most 32 bit Windows software works fine on Win7-x64. 

Georg

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