On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 01:40:22AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > >> ...which Linux distros will have 64-bit packages ready to run on that > >> architecture making full use of the available memory (e.g., 16 GB RAM)? > > > > All the major Linux distributions have 64-bit kernel/binaries: > > > > Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos > > I guess Ubuntu runs on all sorts of 64-bit Intel chips and chipsets, so > that won't be a problem. But are the packages also compiled for the > 64-bit architecture? For most packages it probably won't matter much. > Maybe this is the right answer: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785743 If you install Ubuntu/Debian AMD64, then all you get is 64-bit compiled binaries. If you want to run 32-bit applications, you need to install the ia32-libs package. Fedora AMD64 by default installs a large number of 32-bit libraries, so you can run your old binaries without too much trouble. > I'll also have to make sure that Oracle will run on that system before I > buy it (I think I mentioned before that I'm stuck in Oracle world for now > but may go to PostgreSQL someday). Oracle has a 64-bit versions for most of the supported platforms, including Linux. With Oracle (and most proprietary packages) it might be easier to use Centos/OpenSuse since the instructions will probably be tailored to RedHat and Suse. Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081001/300d38d3/attachment.pgp