Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 01:17:39 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@cokane.org> To: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 32-bit X libs? Message-ID: <20060206061739.GA16722@pint.candc.home> In-Reply-To: <2fd864e0602051846n71db9049u3e54fa486c1300f6@mail.gmail.com> References: <346a80220602032210o71367220v74033da94e3d83bb@mail.gmail.com> <XFMail.20060204144751.conrads@cox.net> <346a80220602051652u5b5f59fdx5fc715c22b84d133@mail.gmail.com> <2fd864e0602051846n71db9049u3e54fa486c1300f6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 08:46:20PM -0600, Astrodog wrote: > Awhile back, I think it was scottl, that had a reason not to do this. > I'd have to check archives. The only real reason I can think of is to not fall into the trap that Windoze and Mac OS X do: Their 64-bit versions of their Operating Systems just end up running a bunch of 32-bit programs due, in part, to the lack of motivation on most anyone's part to maintain a 64-bit and 32-bit codetrain If FreeBSD/amd64 had a nice, easy way to add 32-bit programs to the system, then people would get comfortable with it, and we'd all just have to get used to running 32-bit everything on our nice, fancy 64-bit boxen. -- coleman kane
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