[email protected] writes: > The situation is this I require to be able to run wine on my systems > here (Debian AMD64) and I am finding this something of a pain with the > current Debian. The version of wine required is 1.6. To install the > develpment enviroment for wine ineffect requires an almost complete > parrellel install of a 32 bit system.
So? A system overspecced enough to run wine will surely have a spare 2GB of nonvolatile storage for all the IA32 libraries. > It seems to me it would be easier simply to install i386 and avoid the > pain. IMO that depends on if this box is expected to do much else, besides wine. In any case, multiarch in Debian 7 should not be painful; if there is a problem, file a bug report. > There it appears only to be a minor issue in that the maximum memory > for a single process would 4 gig and I have yet to see any program > even gimp editing full size images from my Nikon D700 come even close > to that figure. I would be thinking more of firefox and eclipse. OTOH, I hear bad things about imagemagick builds with high quanta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension > I have checked on the net for benchmarks between i386 and AMD64 and > there is no obvious overall install that is faster. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ x86-64 represents a substantially higher lowest common denominator than IA32 (e.g. wrt SIMD), which may matter for pre-compiled distributions. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
