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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:00:41
Message-Id: ju4jkk$2oj$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit by Alecks Gates
1 On 17/07/12 19:43, Alecks Gates wrote:
2 > On Jul 17, 2012 11:32 AM, "Volker Armin Hemmann"
3 > <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com <mailto:volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>> wrote:
4 > *snip*
5 > > The only use case that might come up is wine - I don't know anything
6 > about
7 > > that beast. Haven't had any use for it in years.
8 > >
9 > > --
10 > > #163933
11 > >
12 > I use wine daily on 64 bit with no problems.
13
14 64-bit Wine cannot run 32-bit Windows applications. You need a 32-bit
15 Wine for that. And since in 99.9% of Windows software is 32-bit...
16 well, you get the point :-)

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>