Re: i386 or amd64?
Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it> writes:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 11:21:43PM +0200, HXC wrote:
> >
> > Other than non-free stuff like flash and openoffice, is there anything in the main section of i386 that isn't in the
> >main section of AMD64?
>
> openoffice.org IS free. The need for a chroot arises solely because it is not (yet) completely 64-bit clean, which means
> that the 64 bit version is not (yet) completely stable. Things are improving fast, though.
>
> > In other words, what are people having to use a chroot i386 for?
>
> As you said, only for i386-only software, in my case mainly: openoffice (but maybe I will give the 64-bit version a new
> spin shortly), flash, skype, some commercial scientific software I need. Very few things indeed.
Skype works fine with ia32-libs.
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