[mdlug] Moving to Debian 64bit - Lessons Learned?

[Wojtak, Greg]

A 64-bit install of any distribution that I've worked with will install many 32-bit shared libraries to allow for running 32-programs.  Is this what happened to you?

-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Peter Bart
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:57 AM
To: mdlug at mdlug.org
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Moving to Debian 64bit - Lessons Learned?

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:02:42 -0400
Stan Green <Stan at mcomputersolutions.com> wrote:

> I am going to attempt to move my main desktop PC to Debian 5.0.2
> 64bit. (I'm doing it on a different PC, so I can keep my current one
> running until I have the new one running correctly.)  This is my
> first attempt at a 64bit Linux install. Are there any lessons others
> have learned from making this switch or with Debian 64bit? Has anyone
> had success/failure with VMWare Workstation 5.5 in this configuration?
> 
> FYI: My main reason to go to 64bit is to be able to access more than
> 3gb of memory. Running VMWare can quickly chew up memory.
FWIW
	Browser plugins can be hard to get. Seamonkey's been crashing
	for me lately accessing pages with java and/or other elements.
	Or it simply won't display. Epiphany does the same, Opera,
	Firefox work ok. Flock works, sort of. I remember during the
	install openSUSE selected a lot of 32 bit things for me. I have
	openSUSE 11.1 64 bit on a T61 Thinkpad.

Best Regards,
-- 
Peter The Plumber sm
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