[olug] 64bit Redhat/SuSE

[Russ Dunham]

I agree.  I've been running SUSE 64-bit for a year with no problems.  It
produces 32-bit binaries for clients running 32-bit with no problems.

Russ 

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Langford [mailto:unfies at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:10 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] 64bit Redhat/SuSE

If it's native to the processor, then it should be compiled as such :)
-Will

 On 11/3/05, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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