I have a quick question.
I'm thinking of getting an Athlon 64-bit computer for my home use. But I'm not sure that I can use 32-bit LTSP clients with it "risk free".
Currently, the distributions of Linux don't really have a complete set of i386-66bit compiled software so I expect the Athlon-64 to spend 99% of it's time in 32-bit mode.
But as the software migrates to "compiled for 64-bit" what happens to the portion for LTSP?
I know that the kernel is from the LTSP packages, but how is the XFree86 going to behave?
I'm trying to speak generally.
You sure read about the "split" in LTSP, which means some software runs on the "terminal" boxes, and "all the rest" on the server. If you don't have local apps and want the 64bit machinery as a server, then you just use e.g. the vanilla ltsp3 (rpm download or so) and that's all the files *the clients will see*, so they will only see 32bitty code, which is fine.
This does not in any way relate to the software running on the server (that just borrows the screen and input devices from the terminals).
X protocol is not limited to 32bit architectures (runs on old Macs and stuff, which is another byteorder even). I'm even used to having some Solaris Box displaying output to a vncserver that runs on a linux box, viewing it on my vncclient on a linux screen which in turn is running inside a windows box with XWin32....it's slow, but that's what Slowaris is supposed to be probably anyway</rant>.
When you go to BurgerKing in Hongkong, or Berlin, or Mexico City, you don't mind what's behind the counters, as long as the food tastes as it should, do you?
HTH
Anselm
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