[plug] AMD64 distros

[James Devenish]

In message <1093152875.2773.4.camel at localhost>
on Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:34:35PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> It seems like its one of these technologies which is on the horizon but
> not quite there.

Nevertheless, I suggest that you stockpile some 64-bit systems before
the year 2037 ;-) [UNIX 'joke', analogous to the Year 2000 Problem.]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.50.0408221326490.8112-100000 at natalie>
on Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:05:19PM +0800, Michael wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Chris Caston wrote:
> > I assume you can still run win32 apps on 64-bit XP so it should be
> > important to be able to run existing packages on 64 bit Linux.
> 
> I don't know about debian packages but the distros I've tried have had 
> most applications ported. Still, even with Windows, you will run into 
> library hell if trying to use 32 and 64 bit applications. Mandrake and 
> Suse both work around this by separating 64 and 32 bit libraries.

<frown> You seem to associate "library hell" with "work around this
by separating 64-bit libraries from 32-bit libraries". What is the
connection? I agree that "library hell" exists, because all of an app's
dependencies need to be available in the same format as the app itself,
leading to all the "duplication" of libraries.