[K12OSN] Is anyone else using 64 bit clients?

Wed Sep 2 14:47:39 UTC 2009

Is there any reason why running 64-bit clients with 32-bit software is 
"sub-optimal"?  Remember that the applications (OpenOffice.org, etc.) 
are running on the server, not the client.

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Phydeaux wrote:
> Is anyone else using 64 bit clients?  We had a huge problem trying to get USB ports
> on our client machines to work.  Since it's the summer we tried reinstalling everything
> from scratch in case the problem was caused somehow by upgrading/patching or
> an old configuration file.  What we discovered was that the problem exists only with
> 64 bit clients.  Running the 64 bit clients with 32 bit software works fine, but is sub-
> optimal.
>
> The relevant bug reports are as follows:
>
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484580
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/415952
>
> Has anyone else run into this?
>
> reb 
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