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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Maybe a 32-bit Gentoo chroot that doesn't maintain any desktop or X11, |
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>>> etc. could work? If I could convert the files at the command line |
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>>> using ffmpeg in 32-bit then that would be pretty manageable in terms |
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>>> of Gentoo work, assuming the ffmpeg package can be built as without |
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>>> any GUI stuff? |
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>> I was just thinking that. I played with a chroot briefly just before |
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>> inara and kaylee bit it, and it seemed pretty trivial. Were it me, |
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>> that'd be the next thing I'd try. (But then, compiling is cheap for |
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>> me) |
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> I think I'll try it in a Virtualbox VM first I instead of a chroot. |
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> That's pretty easy to deal with. Easy to back up. Easy to move to a |
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> different system down the road. No disk partitions, etc. |
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> Biggest issue for me is likely to be that I haven't done a 32-bit |
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> install in at least 6 years. No idea what to watch out for but I doubt |
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> it's any big deal. No idea how the 32-bit VM really does 32-bit when |
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> it's running on a 64-bit processor that's doing 64-bit all the time |
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> but I guess that's why we pay these Intel & Oracle people the big |
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> bucks, right? ;-) |
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Actually, it's pretty simple, and works just fine IME. I've run 32-bit |
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processes on 64-bit systems ever since I started using 64-bit Linux a |
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few years ago, and it's unavoidable if one does anything on 64-bit |
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Windows. |
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> And if I end up needing X in the 32-bit environment for some reason it |
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> will be easy to add that down the road. |
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For that, I imagine I'd use a TCP socket connecting to localhost. To |
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put it simply, X network transparency is simply awesome. Your x server |
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would run in your 64-bit environment, and your client app would run in |
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your 32-bit environment. |
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> It's a real drag about the hassles your machines have been going |
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> through. I hope you get by that soon. |
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I'm probably going to lose inara to Ubuntu 12.04, unless I get lucky |
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and manage to properly configure a tiny WYSE box I picked up at a |
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computer recycling center. If that works, I'm in good shape. |
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:wq |