Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened laptop: am I nuts?
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:35:44
Message-Id: 49bf44f10712051332y68e443a8g629cd48d8b571d5a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened laptop: am I nuts? by Alex Howells
1 > > Hi!
2 > >
3 > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:39:04AM -0800, Ned Ludd wrote:
4 > > > I already made it 100% clear! You can not upgrade cleanly unless you do
5 > > > a lot of work. far more work than any gentoo dev in his right mind will
6 > > > tell you or suggest. In short. IT DOES NOT WORK! It's never worked. The
7 > > > amd64 team does not support it. Hardened does not support it.
8 > > > So.. I'll state it yet again.. "Complete Reinstall"
9 > >
10 > > Thanks! Looks like my decision to continue working in 32-bit mode even on
11 > > modern processors save me from additional troubles. :) And good luck to
12 > > all people who choose to work in 64-bit mode!
13 >
14 > There's nothing wrong with 64-bit and I'd hasten to add that if you
15 > have a capable processor in a desktop or server, you'd be nuts not to
16 > take advantage of it with applications that're able - there are big
17 > performance gains to be had.
18 >
19 > It's really very simple, if you want to *ever* run a 32-bit
20 > application, you install with a multilib profile.
21
22 Are you sure my problem here is the profile? At least a couple other
23 people have chimed in in doubt and I want to be sure before I
24 reinstall. I must say it makes sense. You want multilib, you select
25 mulitlib.
26
27 - Grant
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