Re: 64 bit F7

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On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:02 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:17 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >   
> >> I have just learned a week or two ago that you can get a 64 bit 
> >> kernel and load a 64 bit Fedora 7. I recall seeing the .iso and wondered 
> >> what it was. Now I know it exists and causes no end of trouble! All the 
> >> fixes and new applications come out 32 bit. They are all RPM files with 
> >> i386 in the name.
> >>
> >>     My question is why would anyone want to have an odd ball F7 with 
> >> 64bit logic? It makes no sense to me.
> >>     
> >
> > Cause your looking into the i386 dir, and not the x86_64 dir, which is
> > where the rpms are for 64bit systems.  Here is part of the dir path to
> > 64bit from the main fedora download site..
> >
> > /pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/x86_64/os/Fedora
> >
> > Above by using ftp to get to it.
> >
> > So not sure what your asking or I am looking at the question from a
> > different angle?
> >
> >   
>     I think you answered my question. I am able to yum things for my 32 
> bit Linux and all the updates they send out are for 32 bit machines. If 
> I were to go 64 bit I need to FTP the RPM files and and install them 
> myself.

Very, very wrong, Karl.  If you install 64-bit F7, all yum updates
will be for the 64-bit system unless only a 32-bit package is
available--in which case yum will update the 32-bit package where
necessary since the 32-bit RPMs will be placed in the 64-bit repos
(the repo maintainers are pretty good about that).  That's what yum's
"$basearch" macro is for--selecting your baseline architecture.

If you install a mixed 64- and 32-bit system (e.g. "install
everything"), yum will update for both (you'll see ".i386.rpm" stuff
go by in the updater window as well as ".x86_64.rpm").

>     I will stay with 32 bit until it is no longer the most popular.

99% of all the stuff you want is available for 64-bit.  If it isn't,
then download the source RPM or tarball and build it for 64-bit.  If
you don't want to do that (or the source isn't available, such as
32-bit, 3rd party stuff such as Flash or Opera), then the 32-bit stuff
will run happily on a 64-bit system.

For example, I do virtually everything on 64-bit.  When I want to watch
Flash, I fire up the 32-bit Opera, which talks to the 32-bit Flash
plugin and voila!  I really only use Opera for that sort of thing...
otherwise I use Firefox 64-bit for virtually all other web browsing.

Saying "I will stay with 32 bit until it is no longer the most
popular" is also a bit weird.  The only thing that's still popular and
primarily 32-bit is Windows.  Mac OS/X is for Intel is even 64-bit.
If you want performance, go 64-bit.  And you'll never even notice when
the very, VERY few 32-bit only stuff runs on the machine.

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