Re: Going back to 32 bit from 64 bit

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Oct 16, 2007, at 09:24, Eric Chadbourne wrote: 

> I'm quite happy with 64 bit fedora. 

A very important distinction to make here: some distributions   
(including Fedora) have gone to great lengths to try to sanely   
support multi-arch (mixing of 64-bit and 32-bit applications/ 
libraries/etc), while others (including Ubuntu) simply punted and   
require you to set up a chroot to run anything 32-bit on top of a 64- 
bit environment. Thus its possible to run pretty much any 32-bit   
userspace application on a 64-bit Fedora install with minimal effort. 


> What firefox plugins are giving you the blues?  I don't use any non- 
> free 
> plugins at the moment but have previously. 

Indeed, I've run the 32-bit flash plugin in conjunction with a 64-bit   
Firefox on my 64-bit Fedora box, and everything worked perfectly.   
That's the only example I've got to work from though. 


> Can't you just dump that data from your db and load it again in the 64 
> bit postgre? 

No personal experience here, but despite my recalling the OP hate   
hate hates MySQL, I'll mention that my MySQL MythTV database moved   
from a 32-bit MySQL to a 64-bit MySQL over a year ago without having   
to dump the db or anything, and it Just Worked... :) 


> Wine sucks balls anyway, or at least it did last time I tried it. 

Not a fan either, but it does work on a 64-bit Fedora w/o any mucking   
around with chroots. 



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> Sadly, I moved back to 32 bit kubuntu. 
> 
> On 64 bit systems everything works fine as long as it is 64 bit or 
> self-contained 32 bit, but not all firefox plugins are 64 bit as of   
> yet, 
> so you have to run the 32 bit version, but that doesn't work because 
> things like sound are implemented at the 64 bit level and the shared 
> libraries don't load. 
> 
> PostgreSQL compiled on a 64 bit machine will not read a database built 
> using a 32 bit build. 
> 
> Wine does not seem to work at all. 
> 
> Oh well, maybe next year. 
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