13 Sep
2009
13 Sep
'09
2:17 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Andrew C. Smith
Aside: Isn't Ubuntu 64-bit as well? I know very little about Linux, aside from that we share a command line.
Thanks, Roger.
Andrew
<SNIP> Not specifically. Linux becomes 64-bit when compiled for 64-bit, run on a 64-bit machine, and the machine has all the 64-bit versions of libraries and everything else installed. Even then you can run 32-bit applications if you have the 32-bit emulation libraries installed. That's how I run ChucK on my Gentoo 64-bit machine as ChucK won't compile correctly on 64-bit. (Or wouldn't the last time I tried. Anyone working on that?) All the distributions I know of support 64-bit versions. HTH, Mark