Re: Install i386 or amd64?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 25 January 2014 16:13, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
> ottavio.caruso%googlemail.com@localhost (Ottavio Caruso) writes:
>
>>Unless you're going to be using applications that don't compile on
>>x64, then I would go for the amd64.
>
>>The only example of application that I wanted to install from binary
>>on amd64 and couldn't is emulators/wine. But it night well compile
>>form sources, I haven't tried yet.
>
> Wine requires kernel support that is only available on i386.
>

So then how does wine work on i386/Netbsd? Because my laptop has only
2G RAM, I might well switch to i386 if that gives me reasonable Win
support. I am going to need it mainly to run MS Office (unfortunately)
and Chrome.

Would Wine/i386 run native 64 bit Windows programs?

And what files can I back up and bring over to i386/Netbsd apart from /home ?

Thanks

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Ottavio