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 1FCKUU-0006tW-U8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:42:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1NHei6D031115; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:40:44 GMT Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1NHYK70000687 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:34:21 GMT Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m2so46267ugc for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:34:20 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=k8YnUuzC+Nsba+Klluw0k8xXdUIxl1J52HyIAejiEZU7zyEnvKmkAebonsK/rq1dCpe8IwO3e9uT4ha8AVKCg2eHql6LHY3UjBvsQwX61Hx23/eyD+VYjjn0M8gDAhwhsJWlzErizhp9BfAyTa/pD3oFbkF5K6qTy5/KYcmEH08= Received: by 10.66.222.18 with SMTP id u18mr1764663ugg; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:34:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.249.9 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:34:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <97c95c3d0602230934x2de6c3b3g@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:34:20 +0100 From: "Boris Fersing" Sender: kernel.sensei@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] amd64/x86 In-Reply-To: <200602231224.02877.danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <403.1140687764@www045.gmx.net> <97c95c3d0602230454l1c8712a7r@mail.gmail.com> <200602231224.02877.danstemporaryaccount@yahoo.ca> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1NHYK70000687 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k1NHei6U031115 X-Archives-Salt: 6d915581-f698-4cf5-b445-31d805646ca8 X-Archives-Hash: 86b52bf2e1f450e06a0871b0cd05eeb2 2006/2/23, daniel : > 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 o= f > "show stoppers" so to speak: Konqueror couldn't play flash movies becau= se > while Konqueror compiled just fine as 64-bit, flash is only available i= n > 32bit. If I wanted to see Flash, I had to use a binary version of Fire= fox. > Worse though was the fact that none of the win32codecs were available s= o 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 Windo= ws > world, you have to conform to that world's handicapps, which means maki= ng 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. > > -- > 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 w= here > they are. > - Hans Blix, Chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq > before the American occupation > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > -- Quiconque me parle de Dieu en veut =E0 ma bourse ou =E0 ma libert=E9. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list