Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:37:47 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD/amd64: is Linux 32-bit or 64-bit? Message-ID: <20051211203747.474fb5a6.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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No, really, this is NOT a trick question. I run FreeBSD/amd64 on one of my machines. As usual, I have installed the linuxulator and the linux_base-8 port. While doing some crazy tricks in my neverending quest to get a working Java browser plugin for my amd64 machine, I thought about the linuxulator and the linux_base-8 port. Since the platform OS is 64-bit, I assumed that the Linuxulator and the linux_base-8 port also was 64-bit. However, I'm not so sure anymore: root@kg-quiet# uname -a FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Thu Dec 8 00:56:05 CET 2005 root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET amd64 root@kg-quiet# /compat/linux/bin/uname -a Linux kg-quiet.kg4.no 2.4.2 FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Thu Dec 8 00:56:05 CET 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This last part seems to say that linux on this machine is 32-bit? What is the correct answer? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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