Re: [gentoo-user] amd64/x86

["Boris Fersing" <kernelsensei@gentoo.org>]

2006/2/23, daniel <danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca>:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:54, Boris Fersing wrote:
> > 2006/2/23, jarry@gmx.net <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.

What jarry wants is to run precompiled 32bits applications, which
should work with the multilib profile.

But I agree iwth some points, you can't use a 32bits plugin with a
64bits application, that's why I've installed mozilla-firefox-bin,
mplayer-bin ...

regards,

Boris.
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