I am currently running a pure 64bit F18, fully updated, kernel 3.8.4-202, KDE 4.10.
Runs sweet on my prehistoric hardware: Sempron 2.0 GHz, 2GB 400 MHz DDR, 100 GB IDE HDD, nVidia G210 1GB, 24" LCD TV @1920x1080 (HDMI connection). (Although I have gutted the initial install of most everything I could reasonably get away with. Amazingly, at idle I'm using approx. 20-25% RAM & ZERO swap. And under heavy load: NO SWAP. Gotta love it:p)
My question is about the "potential" pollution by going multilib. :bang:
I tried, some time back, installing WINE, which brought in a considerable amount of i686 packages, necessary for WINE, of course, but I then experienced problems with systemd/system-config as if the x86 & x86_64 libraries were in conflict. And because the apps I meant to use under WINE didn't work anyway, I wiped all i686 off my machine.
I did a fair amount of research, on this forum and elsewhere, and the topic of running Fedora as multilib does not appear to have much coverage. I admit, I may have run out of search motivation.
I'm not so much asking for specific answers, though that would help, but rather pointers to information about setting up a multilib environment.
Any, and all help, will be greatly appreciated, and reciprocated as soon as I invent an OS that does everything right the first time.:blink:
Runs sweet on my prehistoric hardware: Sempron 2.0 GHz, 2GB 400 MHz DDR, 100 GB IDE HDD, nVidia G210 1GB, 24" LCD TV @1920x1080 (HDMI connection). (Although I have gutted the initial install of most everything I could reasonably get away with. Amazingly, at idle I'm using approx. 20-25% RAM & ZERO swap. And under heavy load: NO SWAP. Gotta love it:p)
My question is about the "potential" pollution by going multilib. :bang:
I tried, some time back, installing WINE, which brought in a considerable amount of i686 packages, necessary for WINE, of course, but I then experienced problems with systemd/system-config as if the x86 & x86_64 libraries were in conflict. And because the apps I meant to use under WINE didn't work anyway, I wiped all i686 off my machine.
I did a fair amount of research, on this forum and elsewhere, and the topic of running Fedora as multilib does not appear to have much coverage. I admit, I may have run out of search motivation.
I'm not so much asking for specific answers, though that would help, but rather pointers to information about setting up a multilib environment.
Any, and all help, will be greatly appreciated, and reciprocated as soon as I invent an OS that does everything right the first time.:blink: