On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:17:34 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope. Then again if you'd run 32bit might as well stay with a 32bit > processor. There are distros like Fedora Core and Suse which support > bi-arch - you won't encounter problems running 32bit apps on them. The > problem crops up when you run native arch-based distributions like > Debian - you'd need to place 32bit applications inside a 32bit-chroot > or get ia32-libs installed.
What are "32-bit apps" with regards to open source? Pardon my ignorance, but if you recompile them yourself, or they are provided with the distribution, isn't the binary code now using the 64-bit general registers? Or, is gcc not that smart yet, or the app can't take advantage anyway. I'm talking about PostgreSQL, MySQL, and maybe the Internet servers. For Java, Sun supports a 64-bit AMD64 JVM so I guess they took care of that part ... And then I read that with "Cool n Quiet," you can adjust the CPU frequency (and thus power and heat) from Linux. How does that work out in real life? -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
