Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 11:21:43PM +0200, HXC wrote:
> >
> > Other than non-free stuff like flash and openoffice, is there anything in 
> > the main section of i386 that isn't in the
> >main section of AMD64?
> 
> openoffice.org IS free. The need for a chroot arises solely because it is not 
> (yet) completely 64-bit clean, which means
> that the 64 bit version is not (yet) completely stable. Things are improving 
> fast, though.
> 
> > In other words, what are people having to use a chroot i386 for?
> 
> As you said, only for i386-only software, in my case mainly: openoffice (but 
> maybe I will give the 64-bit version a new
> spin shortly), flash, skype, some commercial scientific software I need. Very 
> few things indeed.

Skype works fine with ia32-libs. 

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