Re: Power Mac G5 donation
Colin Charles <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.porting |
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| Organization | Aeon Corporation |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:12 +0200, Alexander G.von Below wrote: > > ...and perhaps begin investigations for G5 (64bits) builds ? > > I do not mean to spoil the party, but why would we need a 64 bit > build > of OpenOffice? Because we have 64-bit processors out there, and 64-bit OSes (examples being Fedora Core, SuSE Pro, etc...), and one of the major lacking userspace apps out there is OpenOffice.org, where you've got to install it in 32-bit mode Work has already been underway iirc, to get x86_64 going (read archives of this list for more) -- Colin Charles, [email protected] http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi