Wine on x64 bit Ubuntu 6.06 (was Re: [nzlug] Wine on Ubuntu?)

[Volker Kuhlmann]

On Sun 07 Jan 2007 13:26:30 NZDT +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:

> > *) Explain the problem to Shuttleworth and ask whether he might want to
> > get up to scratch. He makes, afterall, the most user-friendly Linux ;)
> Well, there is a multiarch system in the works. I think it's taking a while to 
> get into Debian, and so it's not expected in Ubuntu until Feisy or the one 
> after that (if not further). But I don't know anything more than that about 
> it. I've heard rumours to the effect that some other non-deb distros may be a 
> bit further along in that respect.

I've been playing with some 64bit box for over a year now, and I barely
ever noticed it wasn't 32 bit. OO: goes. FF: goes. Macromedia drivel:
plug'n'go (or should that be click'n'go?). Crossover office: goes. Well,
as well as that goes in the first place - though that's more of an issue
with the apps inside it. I never tried wine, no need with a crossover
licence. Commercial 32bit software: bibble just goes (on 64bit as well
as on 32bit). Vuescan would fail on SCSI devices a year ago when used on
a 64bit box, I doctored a kernel driver to do a 32/64bit data scructure
conversion when necessary, but not long after vuescan was changed to use
ioctl() calls which aren't sensitive to structure member alignments and
sizes. Acrothingemy: has always worked (though I avoid it whereever I
can). I find 64bit Linux really cool, everyone should have one ;)

Here are the sizes:

124871  /lib
7203    /lib64
1149356 /usr/lib
597488  /usr/lib64

It doesn't say much however, as anything not 64bit-specific is also in
../lib/.

Not Ubuntu though. I was going to have a look at 64bit Kubuntu (should
be easy with vmware-server), but after your description it looks like
it'll be only for a laugh. (Assuming the only(K)ubuntu difference is
KDE/gnome.)

Volker

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