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cc: david <david@davidhlee.com>
Subject: Re: Status of linux compatibility
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On Friday 02 January 2004 05:03, david wrote:
> servers. The main problem I can forsee is when running a 32bit linux
> binary on the 64bit system. Will this work at all and if so what issues
> can I expect. As soon as I get the amd64 machine I'll do my own tesing,
> but in the mean time, what do you guys have to say?

Peter sent in a blurb a while back about the intentions. Basically, FreeBSD 
32-bit binary support is top of the list, then when that works, Linux 32 i 
scheduled to be worked on. See the previous "Linux emulation status" thread 
here.

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