[SLL] Fedora Legacy going away?

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Thu Jan 4 13:55:22 PST 2007


On Thursday 04 January 2007 16:28, Creede Lambard wrote:
> Can I take the 32-bit version of (say) Ubuntu Edgy (or Dapper, or
> whatever), install it on an AMD64 box, and pretend like the box just
> doesn't have those extra 32 bits?

Yes.  That's kind of the point of x86_64 is that it can run native i386, or 
when in x86_64 (long) mode, run mostly native i386 (there are some 
instructions that cannot be emulated by x86_64, but nobody really uses those 
anymore).

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