[TAG] Talkback:160/okopnik.html

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 Larry Tobos wrote:
>    - 374 MB RAM for a 64bit machine is more like half of that on a regular
>    32bit cpu (give and take), unless you specifically optimize your code
>    (which I doubt most of the ports do)

It is possible to run 32-bit code on a 64-bit machine. One way is to
run a 32-bit (s)chroot.
<shameless_plug> This was described in LG #150 </shameless_plug>

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 Ben Okopnik wrote:
> I've got an even easier way to handle that one: menu-xdg (also from
> FreeDesktop.) Once you've installed it, your IceWM (or whatever) menus
> will be auto-updated with new apps every time that 'update-menus' is
> run.

Users of "icewm" (like me) will soon have to put in some work on
either on fixing this wm and/or its libs or on shifting to another wm
since it depends on older versions of libraries (imlib1).

The same unfortunately applies to "fvwm" (gtk1 and glib1).

ISTR something about running quite hard to stay in the same place :-)

Kapil.
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