On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Benjamin Weaver <benjamin.weaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry, guys, for wasting bandwidth on this! You guys gave just the answer I > wanted to hear. Sounds like there aren't any problems. > > Not knowing about such things, I was scared by the following quote. Perhaps > binaries do not need to be compiled as 64 bit binaries on a 64 bit machine? Or > perhaps it's way out of date (2004) or simply wrong. Distro support for 64-bit x86 in 2004 was light-years behind where it is now. A lot of stuff was hard to get working back then. Now almost everything basically Just Works. -Doug
