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Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 23:39 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
*BOGGLE* - use Abiword and Gnumeric, they're generally faster than OOo, too ;) (though I have also printed fine from OOo, however, I should state that I *do* run OOo from a 32bit chroot ;)
Is there any way of doing that and still using apt to manage the packages, for example is it possible to launch apt from a 32bit chroot with a different sources list ?
That's exactly what happens here! What you probably want to look at are: debootstrap - creates a chroot environment dchroot - allows you to change to the chroot as a user
Debian is heading in that kinda direction soon, probably (look thought debian-devel for mentions of multiarch support).
Oh I do hope that happens soon. It is about the only reason I am considering going back to SuSE after my flirtation with Ubuntu.
I believe that it's scheduled to go in to etch, but there's some bugs and discussion to work out first, multiarch is not pretty ;)
Well, if you will use non-free software whaddya expect *grin*.
I know I know, it taints my kernel as well :-)
*cough* - I've got an nvidia module for that ;)
I forgive it however because there is no workable OSS alternative and it has helped turned a study full of mediocre machines into a room with one reasonably fast one.
Hmmm... but it's also taken a room full of usable machines and given you a single point of failure... hmmm... single point of failure ;)
Also VMware after-sales support is very very good, even when I was running an unsupported configuration the support team were falling over themselves to help me with a few issues.
That's only because they've got nothing better to do with their time ;)
Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk