On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:33:28PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:

I'm about to get a new dual opteron machine and move to Suse 9.1 Professional from Debian. The Suse will come pre-installed. I'm new to both smp and 64 bit, as well as Suse.

I wonder if you could point me to some documentation that tells me which apps in the distribution are compiled as 64 bit - shall I need to compile them all myself, or are they all 64 bit? Will any 32 bit apps automatically be installed by a standard Suse install on that kind of machine? Ideally, with a completely clean machine, I'd like to try to keep the apps I use to 64 bit if it's possible (though I understand there will be 32 bit libraries) or is this just a pipe dream?

The full distribution is 64bit precompiled except for java and OpenOffice and a few binary only programs (like acroread) There is additionally a set 32bit libraries for compatibility You can install most 32bit applications and they generally work. -Andi