Recommendations...

Joseph Smith joe at settoplinux.org
Wed Jun 16 10:37:15 EDT 2010




On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:28:01 -0400, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 09:20 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote:
>> Well, when you've got an installed base of venerable yet cantankerous
>> 32bit apps that are tuned for that 4Gb virtual space and need to
>> interoperate with a bunch of 3rd party apps and libs and drivers that
are
>> also 32bit and it would be a bitch to port them to 64bit and requalify
>> them all over again and oh yeah they're running on 32bit machines that
>> have plenty of life in them and all you wanted was to get the benefits
>> of running a newer kernel but now that feature you were using has been
>> discontinued....  that's one scenario.  Guess how I know.
> 32-bit apps run fine in a 64-bit Linux OS, and in many cases better
> since the OS can manage memory a bit more efficiently. The downside is
> that you need to install the required 32-bit libraries too. So far, I
> have not seen a 32-bit application that could not run on a 64-bit Linux
> OS. They are still running native, but they think they are running in a
> 32-bit OS eventhough the drivers themselves may be 64-bit drivers.
> 
>
Yes good old -m32 :-)

-- 
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org



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