Convert from AMD64 to i386

Billy Verreynne (JW) VerreyB at telkom.co.za
Wed Feb 22 08:33:41 UTC 2006


Sasha Tsykin wrote:

> it will run well, but at just a bit more than half the speed.

Calling an o/s that runs (crawls?) at half-speed as running well.. we
have different definitions as to what running well means. Putting a VW
Beetle engine into a Ferrari... [shakes head in disbelief]

> No it's not, for many users, flash and codecs are fundamental.

Fundamental? vi is fundamental. ssh is fundamental. IPtables is
fundamental. Calling Flash that...? Flash is overrated. The name says
it all. Flash and bling before content.

Mplayer (using XMMS as front-end) works just fine for me in the codec
department.

> hard in Ubuntu because all debian derived distros use a non-standard

> library layout for 32- and 64- libraries. Most distribution place
32-bit
> libraries in /usr/lib and 64-bit libraries in /usr/lib64. In ubuntu
> /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64 are used with symlinks to /usr/lib (I
think,
> somebody please correct me if I'm wrong).

Oh no.. not so nice. Still, using LD_LIBRAY_PATH should assist the
dynamic load linker to make sense of it.


--
Billy

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