On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:54, Boris Fersing wrote:
> 2006/2/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm going to install Gentoo on Athlon64-based workstation,
> > but I'm a little confused about hardware profiles and their
> > compatibility:
> >
> > If I select now amd64, will I be able later to install and
> > use x86 software, if there is no amd64 release (for example
> > precompiled game-binaries, or even some sources which are
> > only for x86, not amd64)?
> >
> > Or do I have to use x86 installation profile?
>
> Hi,
>
> just use the amd64 default profile (the mutilib one), then you'll be
> able to run 32bits softwares too !
Not entirely true. When I first got my amd64 box, I did just that and was
horribly disappointed. While most things worked, there were a number of
"show stoppers" so to speak: Konqueror couldn't play flash movies because
while Konqueror compiled just fine as 64-bit, flash is only available in
32bit. If I wanted to see Flash, I had to use a binary version of Firefox.
Worse though was the fact that none of the win32codecs were available so I
couldn't watch any wmv, wma or other binary-only formats.
Sadly, if you want to be able to use stuff typically used for the Windows
world, you have to conform to that world's handicapps, which means making do
with 32bits for now.
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