Re: Which processor mode?

[Warren Togami <warren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 13:04, Matt Wilson wrote:
> 
> One has to install the 32-bit shared libraries in order to use 32-bit
> applications.  The 32-bit shared libraries don't ship with this
> Technology Preview.  Future products for the AMD64 platform will
> include the runtime libraries by default.
> 
> If people are interested in trying some 32-bit applications on the
> platform, we'll need to provide some matching 32-bit RPMs for you to
> use.
> 

I am very excited about testing this technology preview on the two
Opteron servers that we ordered this week.  My plan is to adapt K12LTSP
server-side to work on AMD64 hardware.  I suspect it wouldn't take a lot
of work depending on the state of RH's port to AMD64.

Most of the applications that LTSP users need already come in Red Hat
Linux (mozilla, openoffice, gimp, etc.) and most other things can be
recompiled.  I am hoping Java will be easy to recompile on AMD64.  

Unfortunately LTSP users are very unhappy without Macromedia Flash
plugin, which is 32bit and binary-only.  With the 32-bit shared
libraries would Linux be able to run the 32-bit flash plugin from 64-bit
compiled Mozilla, or would the browser need to be recompiled for i386?

Warren Togami
warren@xxxxxxxxxx