To the original guy who asked abt distros for amd64, One of the people in my hostel have got this amd64 and these are the distros I have figured out and am downloading. Will tell you what happens after I burn them and load them up on his pc.
[*] Lormalinux amd64-beta2 (The most promising one, it is my favourite slack recompiled for the 64 bits!) http://linux.lorma.edu/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=41 [*] Winxp64 beta (Oh well, just spare me the flame. ) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/evaluation/upgrade.mspx [*] Gentoo64 2004.3 beta (Given gentoo's reputation for being a hard install, Gawd help me!) Check the Gentoo mirrors. Or maybe WBUT has something? I will dual boot this with a slack-current now that Pats declared it as beta! Well, such a lot of downloading will take days, but I will do it anyway! Chayan, >From what my *fiddling around* seems to suggest, amd64 will run a 32 bit kernel and all its 32 bit apps without complaining and without configuration. However, if you can get a 64 bit kernel, then you will have to take all your 32 bit apps source code and recompile them for the 64 bit. This recompiling of course is non-trivial and I am glad to have our friends at Lorma do it all! :P Of all the articles I got to, this one was what helped me a lot: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes.xml?part=2&chap=0 Anshul On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:20:31 +0530, Chayan Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I was thinking of getting a 64bit AMD desktop. But how does general 32 > application to on the 64 bit platform? I hear there are problems. Any light > on this would be appreciated. > > Regards > Chayan -- I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig, so i stole someone else's. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
