Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (470 mails)

[Willibald Krenn <Willibald.Krenn@xxxxxx>]

Andi Kleen schrieb:

> Also an a.out linux distribution (SuSE 4.2) runs nicely on the x86-64
> kernel (except for GNU emacs 18 who doesn't like 4GB of address space) 
> I also ran some very old a.out binaries from Linux prehistory (~1992) 
> successfully on the x86-64 kernel.
>  
Hmm, impressive! If only all components of GNU/Linux would be tested 
such comprehensively.

> Win64 dropped supported for 16bit Windows programs. Wine on
> x86-64 linux runs them still fine.
>  
What a pitty that a change in glibc broke wine... (and thus probably Kylix)

http://www.kerneltraffic.org/wine/wn20030131_155.html - point 2

Willi