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On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:54, Boris Fersing wrote: |
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> 2006/2/23, jarry@×××.net <jarry@×××.net>: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > I'm going to install Gentoo on Athlon64-based workstation, |
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> > but I'm a little confused about hardware profiles and their |
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> > compatibility: |
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> > |
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> > If I select now amd64, will I be able later to install and |
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> > use x86 software, if there is no amd64 release (for example |
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> > precompiled game-binaries, or even some sources which are |
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> > only for x86, not amd64)? |
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> > |
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> > Or do I have to use x86 installation profile? |
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> |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> just use the amd64 default profile (the mutilib one), then you'll be |
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> able to run 32bits softwares too ! |
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Not entirely true. When I first got my amd64 box, I did just that and was |
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horribly disappointed. While most things worked, there were a number of |
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"show stoppers" so to speak: Konqueror couldn't play flash movies because |
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while Konqueror compiled just fine as 64-bit, flash is only available in |
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32bit. If I wanted to see Flash, I had to use a binary version of Firefox. |
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Worse though was the fact that none of the win32codecs were available so I |
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couldn't watch any wmv, wma or other binary-only formats. |
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Sadly, if you want to be able to use stuff typically used for the Windows |
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world, you have to conform to that world's handicapps, which means making do |
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with 32bits for now. |
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It is sort of puzzling I think that you can have 100 percent certainty about |
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the weapons of mass destruction's existence, and zero certainty about where |
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they are. |
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- Hans Blix, Chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq |
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before the American occupation |
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