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At 10:24 AM 3/16/2005 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Novell released a new version of SUSE Linux Professional that includes the 2.611 version of the kernel, the 2.0 version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Firefox 1.0 browser.
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I wonder at the following: "The new 64-bit version works with both standard 32-bit processors, Intel Corp.'s Extended Memory 64 Technology and rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Athlon 64 processors." I assume that this is a 32-bit version that _will run_ on 64-bit processors. There's no magic in that. But was this intended to mean that there is an OS _designed_ for 64-bit processors, that will somehow run on 32-bit processors? That's something I hadn't heard of before. (I'm not a programmer, so maybe that's a common thing, but it sounds kind of far out, to me.) Someone please enlighten me. --doug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.3 - Release Date: 3/15/2005