From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCKHz-0005TO-Jj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:30:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1NHSM2u032709; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:28:22 GMT Received: from kenyan.nodes.net.ad-flow.com (KENYAN.NODES.NET.AD-FLOW.COM [66.117.33.216]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1NHO54u018359 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:24:05 GMT Received: from [66.38.196.186] (helo=dquinn.cubearmy.com) by kenyan.nodes.net.ad-flow.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.50) id 1FCKCB-000Pit-0p for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:24:03 +0000 From: daniel To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] amd64/x86 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:24:02 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <403.1140687764@www045.gmx.net> <97c95c3d0602230454l1c8712a7r@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <97c95c3d0602230454l1c8712a7r@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602231224.02877.danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> X-Archives-Salt: daedc250-2cc2-4a45-9ac0-6fa3ab9da6ff X-Archives-Hash: 091928c22fc064fa33945471bfcf0fcd On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:54, Boris Fersing wrote: > 2006/2/23, jarry@gmx.net : > > Hi, > > > > I'm going to install Gentoo on Athlon64-based workstation, > > but I'm a little confused about hardware profiles and their > > compatibility: > > > > If I select now amd64, will I be able later to install and > > use x86 software, if there is no amd64 release (for example > > precompiled game-binaries, or even some sources which are > > only for x86, not amd64)? > > > > Or do I have to use x86 installation profile? > > Hi, > > just use the amd64 default profile (the mutilib one), then you'll be > able to run 32bits softwares too ! Not entirely true. When I first got my amd64 box, I did just that and was horribly disappointed. While most things worked, there were a number of "show stoppers" so to speak: Konqueror couldn't play flash movies because while Konqueror compiled just fine as 64-bit, flash is only available in 32bit. If I wanted to see Flash, I had to use a binary version of Firefox. Worse though was the fact that none of the win32codecs were available so I couldn't watch any wmv, wma or other binary-only formats. Sadly, if you want to be able to use stuff typically used for the Windows world, you have to conform to that world's handicapps, which means making do with 32bits for now. -- It is sort of puzzling I think that you can have 100 percent certainty about the weapons of mass destruction's existence, and zero certainty about where they are. - Hans Blix, Chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq before the American occupation -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list