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Runs 32-bit applications too

Runs 32-bit applications too

Posted Jun 14, 2004 4:09 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Runs 32-bit applications too by BrucePerens
Parent article: Debian x86_64 port ready

Doing it right will require the various distros to talk to each other and not insist on re-inventing the wheel. Certainly those who say that the SuSE/Red Hat approach has some warts that we might regret later. But I am interested in portable code.


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let's try that again:

Posted Jun 14, 2004 5:38 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Whoops, meant to say:

Certainly those who say that the SuSE/Red Hat approach has some warts that we might regret later have a good point.

Runs 32-bit applications too

Posted Jun 14, 2004 9:26 UTC (Mon) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link]

Skimming the debian-amd64 list gives me the impression that FHS/LSB is working on a standard for multiarch support, apparently it will look something like Chris Cheney described briefly a couple of messages above this.

I think they made the right choice in focusing on a "pure64" architecture. It's the simplest approach, and if the wheels of bureocracy turn fast enough, they might get included in sarge. Doing a multiarch thing now would certainly have meant they would not have any chance of making it to sarge, and perhaps they would have to redo it later anyway, when the FHS/LSB thing is finished.

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