<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Alan J Abma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajabma@chartermi.net">ajabma@chartermi.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Can I dual boot a 64 bit Linux OS and a 32 bit linux OS on the same machine?<br>
<br>
It's time for a rebuild of my desktop. I'm looking at new Motherboards,<br>
Processors and stuff and noticed that there's a lot of 64 bit stuff out there<br>
and it seems to be a little cheaper. I'm thinking of having three OS's on the<br>
machine, two at 32 bit and one at 64 bit to play with.<br>
<br>
Thoughts?<br>
Ideas?<br>
Alan<br>
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<br>x86 has jumped the shark. Most distros are releasing x86 versions to keep the<br>older hardware viable. Right now every software package has to be built for both<br>arch. You can build x86 and x86_64 packages with a 64bit system, but using just<br>
x86 would limit that ability.<br><br>I use <a href="http://www.foresightlinux.org/">http://www.foresightlinux.org/</a><br><br></div></div></div>