On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 23:38:31 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> My understanding was that the Debian way of running 32-bit stuff on a > 64-bit machine is to create a chroot 32-bit world. It sounds awkward. > Perhaps things have been improved. No, Debian does much the same as Fedora and other 64-bit distros, just not as well. That is, a Debian distro maintains two sets of libraries. The problem is that sometimes you can't just grab the regular 32-bit library and put it into the 32-bit library folder. There are occasional problems with compatibility. Also, from what you say, Debian does the folders backwards -- 64-bit libs are in /lib and 32-bit libs are in /lib32. In theory this shouldn't make any difference. In practice, it sometimes does. > Do I exploit Fedora's capability to run 32-bit stuff? Only in a few > cases, but some have been important. Ditto for me in Ubuntu Edgy amd64. I have 32-bit Adobe Reader, 32-bit RealPlayer, 32-bit Opera, and 32-bit Java. The first three I installed with --force-architecture. The latter was in the Ubuntu amd64 repositories. > - for the longest time, OpenOffice only came in 32-bit form. No > longer true. I hear conflicting stories about this. The most credible story that I have heard for Ubuntu Edgy amd64 is that OOo is 32-bit and Ubuntu wrote ia32-lib-openoffice to make it work. > - I have a 32-bit firefox in which to run the Flash plugin. But > almost all the time I use the 64-bit Firefox, without Flash. > (There are a lot of packages that depend on the 64-bit firefox > so I don't think that I could simply replace it with the 32-bit > one.) On my Ubuntu amd64 Edgy R3240 I have had flash installed in 64-bit Firefox, along with all the rest of the plugins that the medial kiddies want. After a bit I took out the flash plugin because it was too annoying. However, since Flash 32 was installed, it continued to run in Opera. That's perfect -- Firefox is what I normally use and I don't want Flash. If I do want to go to Youtube or someplace like that, then I launch Opera. > - Mplayer needs to be 32-bit to run the 32-bit codecs. I don't > actually know whether I'm using them. Mplayer and codecs are > a bit of a mystery to me. I have never gotten mplayer to work worth a damn on 64-bit Ubuntu-anything. But I don't really care because I have no use for it. I use Totem to view movies (works perfectly) and RealPlayer for audio files, including web streams. I don't care to bother viewing video over the web. > (I run Ubuntu 6.06 on my 32-bit subnotebook. I'll go look at Feisty. > What's with the name? Should it not be Feisty > Something-that-begins-with-F?) You can get it here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-5/ Download the torrent. I have completed the full download and am seeding it back, so I know you will get at least one peer. _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
