[gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/07/12 00:14, Alecks Gates wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: 64-bit Wine cannot run 32-bit Windows applications. You need a 32-bit Wine for that. And since in 99.9% of Windows software is 32-bit... well, you get the point :-) Sure, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/07/12 00:14, Alecks Gates wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: 64-bit Wine cannot run 32-bit Windows applications. You need a 32-bit Wine for that. And since in

[gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/07/12 16:03, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting that Wine aims to do the WOW64 thing. That's certainly news to me :-) Not really surprising. There's an IsWow64Process() in the Windows API to allow processes to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:31:42 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/07/12 16:03, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting that Wine aims to do the WOW64 thing. That's certainly news to me :-) Not really

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Hampicke
Stupid question incoming: What's the WOW in WOW64? The more I read it as World of Warcraft the more I see that it doesn't actually fit :-) WOW = Windows-on-Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:31:42 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/07/12 16:03, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting that

[gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/07/12 17:06, Michael Mol wrote: For system libraries, 64-bit windows provides both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of supported libraries, rather like multilib environments on Linux. So how does Wine run 32-bit Windows programs on a non-multilib Gentoo? Doesn't it need 32-bit *.dll.so files?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/07/12 17:06, Michael Mol wrote: For system libraries, 64-bit windows provides both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of supported libraries, rather like multilib environments on Linux. So how does Wine run 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:06:18 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:31:42 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/07/12 16:03, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jul 19,

[gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/07/12 05:22, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So the same old query again I guess. What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit processor? I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not

[gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/07/12 19:43, Alecks Gates wrote: On Jul 17, 2012 11:32 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: *snip* The only use case that might come up is wine - I don't know anything about that beast. Haven't had any use for it in years. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Alecks Gates
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/07/12 19:43, Alecks Gates wrote: On Jul 17, 2012 11:32 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: *snip* The only use case that might come up is wine - I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/07/12 19:43, Alecks Gates wrote: On Jul 17, 2012 11:32 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: *snip* The only use case that might come up is wine - I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Jul 18, 2012 2:52 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/07/12 19:43, Alecks Gates wrote: On Jul 17, 2012 11:32 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:52:08 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: So the same old query again I guess. What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit processor? I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or = 4 GB, even