On Dec 12, 10:46am, Gilles@Gravier.org (Gilles Gravier) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: amd64 stable for production ?

| Well, the kernel is 64 bit... and it is built so that it allows you to 
| run either 32 bit or 64 bit applications seamlessly.
| 
| But do you really need a 64 bit "ls" command? Probably not.
|
| So Solaris is designed so that you really get the best of both world. 
| Your OS can boot in 32 or 64 bit mode. When it is in 32 it will only run 
| 32 bit stuff... when it is in 64 bit mode, it will run 32 and 64 bit 
| mode stuff... everything that doesn't need to be in 64 bit (why would 
| you want a GUI in 64 bit mode? no display handles that many levels per 
| primary color, and unicode fits well in 32 bits, and applications like 
| office productivity, mail, web certainly don't need 64 bit mode)... but 
| anything that you need to run in 64 bit mode will do so fine and 
| transparently.

No, but I needed a 64 bit grep, awk, sed, sort, etc... I just think that all
the applications that have the potential to use a lot of memory should be
64 bit.

| I think Solaris counts very well.

Yes, if your needs are modest.

christos