18 Jan
2007
18 Jan
'07
10:38 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:30:56AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
cl@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.
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Chris Green (chris@halon.org.uk)