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oui

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 298

install kompozer in core64: 32 bit or 64 bit version?

kompozer is available at http://kompozer.net/ as binary. but their are also 64 bit versions available at divers depositories for Ubuntu. and it would be possible to install blue-griffon, available in both, but considerably bigger in size (8 MB --> over 30 MB).

what is the best? can slitaz-rolling-core64 directly use 32 bit versions including for tools like dictionaries?

(independant from the version, the choice of dictionaries can be an important factor: kompozer uses myspell and offers adequate and slim old dictionaries on above site. blue-griffon will probably use the terrible big actual hunspell dictionaries and procede to a version control like seamonkey? why not directly seamonkey, is on the slitaz depository? different from lo, oo, calligra, seamonkey is big has no menu entries and desktop icons ready to use! seamonkey is bigger in size than kompozer (but not so big than blue-griffon). so is kompozer in my opinion better for a minimalist distro like slitaz)

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

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Re: install kompozer in core64: 32 bit or 64 bit version?

slitaz-rolling-core64 is a 32 bit system (libraries & binaries) with a 64 bits kernel (> 4GB support)

Only the 32 bit version should work.

oui

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 298

Re: install kompozer in core64: 32 bit or 64 bit version?

Hi

I actually use 2 Linuxes very intensively:

- LazyPup Unicorn60, a pure 32 bit system, not one one news in 64 bit also available now under a parent name, from hobby coder RSH (German member of the Puppy Linux forum), 32 bit version derivated from the Quirky Linux from Barry Kauler

- SliTaz-rolling-core64, the newer.

Using LazyPup Unicorn60, no stress, the laptop cooling system enter rarely in action. the laptop is completely silent. Start is enormous fast, and the system responding soon, until the supplementary bash code of RSH begins to modificate the system.

Using SliTaz-rolling-core64 the cooling ventilator is allways in action. Start is definitively slow until the kernel appears (because of ext4 partitions? SliTaz claims no compatibility with ext2 / ext3. but both are definitively to old for larges disks...).

The question is: What is the sense of 64 bits? to make the system more slow or more efficient? The start is slow and after the start, we are operating with 32 bit packages. Is a pure 32 bit system really less effective?