Can 32-bit Linux be installed on 64-bit laptop (and is it a good idea)?

[James Wilkinson]

Ping-Wu Zhang wrote:
> I read somewhere that the ATI proprietary driver will be included in
> the upcoming Xorg 7.0.  Does anyone know anything about this?

Sounds *pretty* unlikely, in my humble opinion.

I don't think X.org would accept it unless it was under an X-style
license. And the last I heard, ATi weren't happy with open-source
licenses because they thought they had "valuable intellectual property"
in their source code.

I should have thought we'd have heard if ATi was about to relax that.

On the other hand, we might get better 2D support with ATi's help.

On the third hand, I went a-Googling, and found a couple of
Spanish-language sites talking about improved ATi support in 7.0. This
points back to http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/ChangesSince68 , but it
all reads as though it's normal open source development.

James.

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.vivalinux.com.ar/desktop/x.org-7.0-rc0.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522X.org%2B7.0%2522%2BATI%26hl%3Den%26hs%3DwnY%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DG

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