On Monday 30 October 2006 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi ashley, > When you change the kernel to a 64bit, or any architecture, your changing > how the core of the OS works, and how it communicates with the software, so > basically this means all the 32bit software you have installed won't work > if you simply replace the kernel and then reboot your system. Fortunately, > due the flexability of Open source software, the vast majority of software > your likely to have, will probobly have a 64bit version available, with the > exception of CPU specific programs (emulators, etc) and proprietary > software binaries (such as the Flash plugin). > > So basically to answer your question, no. If you want to move to a 64bit > kernel, you need to move everything to 64bit. > > Hope this helps
I don't know how Ubuntu fares here BUT SuSE has 32bit libs so [tigger] /home/jam [54]% uname -a Linux tigger 2.6.16.21-0.25-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 19 07:26:15 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux and I run 32Bit Mozilla (for flash) 32Bit Xine for all the Win32 codec support eg something.wmv that people send 32Bit skype [no options] So you can get all the 32Bit support you need. In addition running 32Bit OS on my AMD meant that cool-n-quiet did NOT work. Only runs on 64 eg [snipped lots] [tigger] /home/jam [55]% cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 43 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1000.000 [snip] power management: ts fid vid ttp processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 43 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1000.000 [snip] James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
