On Saturday 21 November 2009 21:37:14 [email protected] wrote: > >> I'm going to get a new desktop at work and was wondering whether it's > >> worth moving to 64-bit. > > > > I confess that I still dual boot 32-bit for one legacy application: > > Vuescan. But with enough tinkering with ia32-lib or VirtualBox, I bet I > > could get it to work. It used to work on 64-bit Intrepid. Other than > > that, I've been running a 64-bit desktop happily for years. > > This seems rather pointless when you can install a chroot 32bit system > and run 32bits apps in it, or set up the ia32-libs
Setting your 64 to run 32 apps is so trivial I can't remember the 1 liner. something like apt-get install lib32 or ia32 something like that. (browse with app-cache search) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
