64 bit F7

[Justin Conover]

On 7/17/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>     I have just learned a week or two ago that you can get a 64 bit
> kernel and load a 64 bit Fedora 7. I recall seeing the .iso and wondered
> what it was. Now I know it exists and causes no end of trouble! All the
> fixes and new applications come out 32 bit. They are all RPM files with
> i386 in the name.
>
>     My question is why would anyone want to have an odd ball F7 with
> 64bit logic? It makes no sense to me.
>
> Karl
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Huh?

I've been running a 64bit Fedora since version 3 or 4.  Looking around my
room.  I have 5 x64 systems running.....

Not everything can compile against 64, but most can and the few stragglers
that is what we have multilib support for.
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