[ALUG] Re: Re: nspluginwrapper

[cl at isbd.net]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:30:56AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> cl at isbd.net wrote:
> > advantages of going 64-bit are still not much and the difficulties are
> > considerable.
> 
> Is it just that you should have applications compiled for 64-bit (so
> the usual problems with proprietary vendors refusing to support
> anything besides i386 or i686) or are there more?
> 
> At least with x86-64 platforms, there's the possibility of using i386
> a lot more painlessly than most platforms.
> 
It's more that most 'ready made' packages (for example Slackware
packages, I don't know about rpm files or Debian stuff) will be 32-bit
so, if you run 64-bit, you need to compile a lot yourself.  Or you need
to run the 32-bit package in some sort of wrapper.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)