Hello Maurice!   
      
   07 Nov 2018 17:04, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    BP>> gentoo have disabled multilib on 64bit   
      
    MK> What took them so long?   
      
   funtoo develoopers was still using gentoo :)   
      
    MK> I briefly had a multilib going when I first    
    MK> got my hands on a amd64 and went pure 64 bit after that on a quad core    
    MK> xeon.   
      
   i waited to see it disabled, at that time it took long to compile glibc when   
   it was updated :)   
      
    MK> That was around 15 years ago and the only distribution talking    
    MK> about pure 64 back then was fedora.   
      
   time fly, redhat 9 did something bad aswell, i lost intrest in redhat when it   
   killed redhat free update support, asking users to just change to some other   
   precompiled things would be like ask me to install cpm on x86 :)   
      
    MK> The "Cross Linux From Scratch"    
    MK> people were the only ones I was aware of that did more than just talk    
    MK> about it.   
      
   yes i remember some fun from that talks   
      
    MK> As far as raspbian is concerned, there is a port called pi64 which is    
    MK> as close as it gets to an official raspbian.   
      
   in gentoo i see   
      
      ----- rpi begins -----   
   [N] media-libs/raspberrypi-userland (--): Raspberry Pi userspace tools and   
   libraries   
   [N] media-libs/raspberrypi-userland-bin (--): Raspberry Pi userspace tools and   
   libraries   
   [N] media-video/raspberrypi-omxplayer (--): Command line media player for the   
   Raspberry Pi   
   [N] sys-boot/raspberrypi-firmware (--): Raspberry PI boot loader and firmware   
   [N] sys-boot/raspberrypi-mkimage (~0_p20120201): Raspberry Pi kernel mangling   
   tool mkimage/imagetool-uncompressed.py   
   [N] sys-kernel/raspberrypi-image (--): Raspberry PI boot loader and firmware   
   [N] sys-kernel/raspberrypi-sources (--): Raspberry PI kernel sources   
   Found 7 matches   
      ----- rpi ends -----   
      
   no stable ebuilds yet :/   
      
   note it miight be on rpi installs :)   
      
    MK> I haven't tried it    
    MK> myself as I have issues with people who purposely degrade hardware all    
    MK> in the name of so-called compatibilty.   
      
   you can say it more polite precompiled problems :)   
      
    MK> The raspbian people are no    
    MK> better than what Bill Gates did way back in the early 1990's with    
    MK> 16-bit dos on 32 bit cpu's.   
      
   agree   
      
    MK> It took MS a decade before finally    
    MK> getting rid of that lame idea and by that time the x86_64's were    
    MK> rearing their ugly heads and ot took them another five-ish years to    
    MK> finally catch up.   
      
   this is still what happens on all what is done in all the precompiled distros,   
   i only know gentoo and freebsd not have this problems   
      
    MK> Putting a 32 bit operating system on a 64 bit cpu is shameful and    
    MK> disgraceful methinks.   
      
   is runCPM x86 an exempt to that ?   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
   --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/4.14.78-gentoo (x86_64))   
    * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)