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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Jun 14, 2012 16:45 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)In reply to: Quotes of the week by nevets Parent article: Quotes of the week
You are right. I didn't know about the linux-image-amd64 package.
So, Debian has the ability to install a 64bit kernel on a 32bit system.
According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=precise&arch=..., Ubuntu has no such package.
I know that RHEL 6 and its derivates have no such package, and neither does SLE nor openSUSE. I assume that Fedora has none either.
I'd say, even with this correction, my original statement stands: If one looks at the major distributions, one sees the reason why not more people use such an installation.
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Quotes of the week Posted Jun 14, 2012 16:56 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]
Which gives more reason to add that message.
It will give the major distros more incentive to make their i386 userspace include a x86_64 kernel. Otherwise the kernel will keep calling their users idiots ;-)
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