Oren, thanks. "Anything you can recommend?" - means, any specific recommendations? - like - configurations, etc. But I think you answered my questions. I will google for documents based on your answer.
Thx Eran On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Oren Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > x86_64 (recognized by 'lm' flag in /proc/cpuinfo) is fully backward > compatible > (16/32 bit). > > Of course, a 32bit binary would require 32bit libraries and vice versa (so > you > cannot use 32bit plugins in 64bit firefox without a hack, for example). > > Even though x86_64 is mature enough to have all foss in 64bit form, x86_64 > distributions (at least fedora/redhat) still supply popular libraries (i.e. > libc) in 32bit form. > > I didn't understand your "Anything you can recommend?" question. > > - Oren > > On Friday, 4 July 2008 19:35:46 Eran Levy wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've got a new duo-core laptop and installed the Ubuntu 64-bit > compilation > > for the first time. Anything you can recommend? ALL 32-bit application > can > > work on 64-bit? any exceptions? even GTK? > > Should I install any 32-bit libraries? > > > > Thanks for your help, > > Eran > > > -- Thanks, Eran
