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Re: [opensuse] Have 4G, any reason to use x86_64 over i386?
- From: Matthias Hopf <mhopf@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:15:04 +0100
- Message-id: <20070126121504.GA26424@xxxxxxx>
On Jan 25, 07 14:45:18 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Matthias Hopf wrote:
> >You can run i586 programs on a x86_64 kernel, in fact this is very much
> >advised for firefox (stabiliy, plugins) and video players (due to
> >win32codecs). AFAIK openoffice isn't even ported to x86_64 yet.
>
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/OpenOffice.org/10.2-x86_64
I should have said: the port isn't completed yet. I knew there were
efforts in getting the x86_64 port as stable as the i586 version.
Matthias
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> Matthias Hopf wrote:
> >You can run i586 programs on a x86_64 kernel, in fact this is very much
> >advised for firefox (stabiliy, plugins) and video players (due to
> >win32codecs). AFAIK openoffice isn't even ported to x86_64 yet.
>
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/OpenOffice.org/10.2-x86_64
I should have said: the port isn't completed yet. I knew there were
efforts in getting the x86_64 port as stable as the i586 version.
Matthias
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