[Fwd: Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?]

Kilz _ kilzzz at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 1 22:11:13 BST 2006




>From: Alexandre Strube <surak at surak.eti.br>
>To: ubuntu-devel <ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
>Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?]
>Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:38:41 +0200
>
>Em dom, 2006-10-01 às 17:39 +0200, Reinhard Tartler escreveu:
> > This is not the right reasoning. It is "we are not willing to ship a
> > 32bit browser in addition to a 64bit browser on amd64 because of
> > additional maintenance overhead when preparing (security) updates".
>
>Which ones? Ain't it exactly the same binary from i386?

Mine isnt, mainly because I never thought about doing that and use the 
binaries Mozilla provides. But It could be, the only diffrence would be 
placing firefox in a firefox32 folder and changing the Architecture: line in 
the controll file from i386 to amd64.

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