On 7/5/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All current linux distributions are pure64.
That might be a matter of definition. From the user's point of view, most commercial distributions are multiarch. After all, it is difficult to sell a "better" distribution that is not even compatible to "common" Linux binaries. RedHat and SuSE certainly are, which is already the biggest part of the market. > They only differ slightly > in the amount of 32bit libs preinstalled (what debian has as > ia32-libs). Yes, and how well it works :-) > Multiarch is something that goes way beyond what other > amd64 distributions have. Maybe, but the RedHat package management does support two different architectures, and it does it now. > Multiarch standardizes and greatly simplifies installing random 32bit > packages on amd64 by making the packaging system aware of the fact. It > does not change the ability to run 32bit apps on amd64 at all, you > already have that. No, for all practical purposes you do not have that. I could not get a single third part binary to work without a chroot. And recommending a chroot is just a different way of saying that it is not supported. Thomas
