Re: Going back to 32 bit from 64 bit

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 I replied to jarod privately by accident from my blackberry.  Maybe he 
can share with you some comments on what I relayed to him.  Simple 
fact is that fedora did 64-bit right in terms of compatibilty for 
desktop users.  Ubuntu needs to improve here, but you just need a few 
commands.  However, once you step outside you repos, updating becomes 
an unwanted task... 


On 10/16/07, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:52:56 -0400 
> Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > A very important distinction to make here: some distributions 
> > (including Fedora) have gone to great lengths to try to sanely 
> > support multi-arch (mixing of 64-bit and 32-bit applications/ 
> > libraries/etc), while others (including Ubuntu) simply punted and 
> > require you to set up a chroot to run anything 32-bit on top of a 64- 
> > bit environment. Thus its possible to run pretty much any 32-bit 
> > userspace application on a 64-bit Fedora install with minimal effort. 
> 
> Hi Jarod, 
> I was wondering if you could elaborate a bit more on this. As I have a 
> few 32-bit things running on Ubuntu 64. Certainly one of the things you 
> need is to have both the 32-bit as well as 64-bit libraries. As I 
> documented, this morning I installed wine, which is a 32-bit 
> executable. 
> 
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> Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> 
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