[olug] 64bit Redhat/SuSE

[Phil Brutsche]

Under the commercial unices it's not uncommon to run a 64-bit kernel
with a 32-bit userland, and only use 64-bit binaries for things that
need it - ie Oracle.  Solaris was like that through Solaris 9, the last
release to support 32-bit SPARCs.

More distributions need to do the same.

Honestly, do Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE, GNOME, the GIMP, etc etc
*really* *need* to be 64-bit?

Bill Brush wrote:
> Honestly our resident Linux uber-geek has played with 64 bit versions
> and he's found a lot of things that don't have 64 bit versions, or 
> don't run under the 64 bit libraries.  Unless you need the extra 
> memory space, or have something that is written for it, I think 
> you're still ahead to use the 32 bit versions.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us