Anyone running centos/rhel x86_64 systems has probably noticed that redhat has a strange way to install a mix of i386 and x86_64 rpms on such a systems. This is how redhat is using the 64bit architecture in a mixed way to be able to support also i386 applications. This is completely different from how for example debian does this where you will not see by default any i386 libraries or duplicate applications installed (you can install and use ia32 libraries for compatibility reasons but the user is in full control on this process). The way how… Read the rest