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ianb72
October 13th, 2007, 06:27 AM
Hi
I am presently running the 32 bit Feisty, on a AMD 64bit cpu, I am planning to install Gusty when it is available to download.

My question is that I run a few amateur radio windozes apps under Wine and lots of Amateur Radio software, will these still work if I install the 64bit version of Feisty or Gusty or is it best to stick to the 32bit version?

Cheers
Ian
Kilz
October 13th, 2007, 10:10 AM
Hi
I am presently running the 32 bit Feisty, on a AMD 64bit cpu, I am planning to install Gusty when it is available to download.

My question is that I run a few amateur radio windozes apps under Wine and lots of Amateur Radio software, will these still work if I install the 64bit version of Feisty or Gusty or is it best to stick to the 32bit version?

Cheers
Ian

Anything you have installed with wine will require the same setup you did on 32bit, no difference. Any native applications that are 32bit may require some setup, but should run. As to the question of should you, thats up to you. You might want to read the sticky posts to save everyone a lot of typing.