Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-04 Thread Tom Davies
.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Mas tier3supp...@gmail.com To: Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 4 November 2012, 5:03 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-) On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Jay

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-04 Thread Mas
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Are Cpu cycles to do with multi-core/multi-cpu? If so it's presumably possible for 32bit apps to take advantage. I think it's just a fluke that most of us think that 64bit machines tend to have more than 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-04 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Apparently the 4Gb Ram limit is a limit of the OS, not the apps. If the OS can read/write to more ram then i don't think the apps would be restricted. Apparently OSes that are 32bit could read more Ram with a different kernel module. With GnuLinux it's possible to swap-in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-04 Thread James Knott
Mas wrote: I believe someone else mention this on the thread, its not new and unix/linux has been using it. Yes, there was a 64 bit version of Linux running on the DEC Alpha, followed shortly by the IBM PowerPC around 1994 - 1995. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-04 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 04-11-12 13:21, James Knott wrote: Mas wrote: I believe someone else mention this on the thread, its not new and unix/linux has been using it. Yes, there was a 64 bit version of Linux running on the DEC Alpha, followed shortly by the IBM PowerPC around 1994 - 1995. The 64-bit R4000 by

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-03 Thread Mas
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:41 AM, rost52 bugquestcon...@online.de wrote: May I ask why our devs should work on a win64 version while we are having still a few bugs in the 3.6 branch (and also in 3.5.7). How many LibO user are having wn64 machines? Or better what is the percentage of win64

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-03 Thread James Knott
rost52 wrote: How many LibO user are having wn64 machines? Or better what is the percentage of win64 users in the LibO community? I'm a Linux user, 64 bits of course, but I have one, 1, count 'em, one computer that has 64 bit Windows 7 on it. Then again, there have been 64 bit versions of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-03 Thread VA
Okay, I'll betray my ignorance. What would be the difference or advantage of running a 64 bit LibO vs. a 32 bit LibO? Virgil -Original Message- From: James Knott Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 4:53 PM To: LibreOffice Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-03 Thread Jay Lozier
to 4 GB. -Original Message- From: James Knott Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 4:53 PM To: LibreOffice Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-) rost52 wrote: How many LibO user are having wn64 machines? Or better what is the percentage of win64 users in the LibO community

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-03 Thread Mas
use. Some large databases will require 64 bit because 32 bit is limited to 4 GB. -Original Message- From: James Knott Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 4:53 PM To: LibreOffice Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-) rost52 wrote: How many LibO user are having wn64

[libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

2012-11-02 Thread Carlo Strata
Dear Everyone, are we working forward to LibreOffice-win64? Taking a look if there were new Scribus releases I give a look to next branch svn 1.4.2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-svn/1.4.2svn/ and I see that... there are an x64 windows build (!!!) that I suppose it