On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 20:33 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Hilton Medeiros > <medeiros.hilton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Arch's competent Linux users should know that there is no way to > > magically convert i686 binaries to x86_64, right guys? I know you are > > just joking. ;) > > > > > No I didn't know that really. If I'm an arch user should that imply > that I know anything and everything about Linux LOL ? > Its like, if you're a cook, then it implies that you can make any sort > of food, be it american, european, asian, etc. ?!?! > No, if you're an arch user it implies you'd have already done some searching and come across the threads about converting which explicitly tell you that all binaries/libs (basically packages) need to be reinstalled, and all you can keep are most of your configuration files. And at 1 GB RAM it'll probably run slower. 64-bit binaries are larger in memory than 32-bit (its not double the size, but they ARE bigger). Depends on what exactly you run of course, once you start hitting swap you'll need a cup of coffee to get anything done.
