>Now you can run 64 bit applications on 32 bit Linux kernel

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Ever wondered why you are not able to run 64 bit applications on your 64-bit processor when you are running 32 bit kernel. Your application don’t even need 10MB of memory to run but still it does not run on 64 bit processor if kernel is 32 bit. You wonder Why?


Now you can can run 64-bit applications in a 32 bit kernel thanks to Linux PAE64 project which runs kernel code and device drivers in compatibility mode and exposes 64 bit processor capabilities to applications. Now you can run 64 bit applications requiring less than 3GB of address space in an 32 bit kernel to begin with, it can be increased to full 64 bit address space later on.

Jasvant Singh
Developer at Linux PAE64

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[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxpae64/