Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmannvolkerar...@googlemail.com writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Mar 2010, at 07:19, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmannvolkerar...@googlemail.com writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote: I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable - if I could choose no-multilib now and change my mind using eselect later. Presumably I can choose to keep these 32-bit libs for the moment blow them away if I find I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Mick
On 4 March 2010 09:15, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Donnerstag 04 März 2010, Stroller wrote: I'd be really quite happy if I knew that this decision was revocable - if I could choose no-multilib now and change my mind using eselect later. Presumably  I can choose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 08:56:34AM +, Stroller wrote I could imagine that web-browsers might need 32-bit support in order to play Flash If you're brave, there's an alpha (as in pre-beta, not the CPU) 64-bit plugin for linux at... http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html

[gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmannvolkerar...@googlemail.com writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it will pull the stuff in. There is nothing you