Austin, You can install a 32-bit distribution on a 64-bit architecture if the architecture supports the 32-bit instruction set (the pentium, athlon64, opteron, and sempron line do). Most of the 64-bit architectures offer a boost in SIMD performance running in 64-bit mode. If you're not crunching numbers, you probably won't notice much of a difference.
Most distros offer a multilib setup so that you can transparently run 64, and 32-bit binaries. Because of chroot, and multilib there is no reason not to run in 64-bit mode IMHO. - Sebastian On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Austin Stanhope wrote: > Based on the presentation given last Thursday about using the chroot > command to run 32 bit stuff on a 64 bit Linux distribution, i was > wondering if you could also just install a 32 bit version of Linux on > your 64 bit machine to achieve the same outcome. Are there any cons or > pros to this idea versus using chroot on your 64 bit distro? > > Thanks, > -Austin > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
