Re: 64 bit

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/08/05

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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:59:59 -0600

    On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 10:06 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:
    > Ok, my personal machine, the MB died. Sooooo, should I do a 64bit board
    > as a replacement or wait?

    As others have said, a 64 bit CPU will run in 32 bit mode.

    The Debian AMD64 port is in pretty good shape, but a home user
    should note: certain popular closed source apps are 32 bit:
    - w32codecs
    - RealPlayer 10 (and 8, but who cares?)
    - acroread

    It's possible to get them running in chroot jails. The debian-amd64
    list archives has much more on how to do that. I'd suggest that
    you join that list, and study it's archives. 

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