On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:59 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: <SNIP> > > it would seem that the 32ul-11.0.iso > version would be the one to run 32 > bit software on? <SNIP>
I cannot speak for the LiveDVD as I've not tried it but remember there are still lots of older machines running 32-processors in them that need a 32-bit only DVD to install at all. I suspect the purpose of the 32-bit DVD is to support those boxes. As evidence of the growth of 64-bit machines in at least the vocal part of the Gentoo users (those using the user's lists) I started running 64-bit Gentoo about 5-6 years and at this time no longer even own any (working) 32-bit machines. Up until about 3 years ago the Gentoo amd64 list had all the 64-bit specific question traffic. As of today that list is almost totally quiet implying that nearly all 64-bit users are just using this list and most folks see no distinction anymore. If that's true then it's easy to forget that there may be lots of quiet 32-bit users still out there. - Mark
