From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsIwo-00080N-QR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:29:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6CBR2ug022028; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:27:02 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6CBR13i025018 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:27:01 GMT Received: from colo2.routerspeed.com ([217.21.144.2]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsIvW-0004lN-In for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:27:50 +0000 Received: from ip503c1252.speed.planet.nl ([80.60.18.82] helo=[10.0.0.1]) by colo2.routerspeed.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1DsIvU-0000No-A9 for gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:27:48 +0200 Message-ID: <42D3A936.8060306@anand.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:27:50 +0200 From: Anand Buddhdev User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] 64-bit or 32-bit? X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4b16b733-f167-43d3-b05f-f72d5e086793 X-Archives-Hash: c60490967e8ba4c399a09d5e58111f5f Hello fellow list members, I'm getting a new AMD64-based computer, and I'd like to run gentoo on it. I have been doing a bit of reading about running linux on AMD64, and it seems that in general, it's not a problem. The main issues seem to be with firefox 32-bit plugins, and win32 codecs for use with mplayer. My reading seems to suggest that if I stick to firefox-bin and mplayer32, then I should be fine. However, I'd like to hear from people who're already using gentoo on amd64, and what their experience is. Is it simple to get these apps to work? Or was there a lot of frustration involved. I've used linux and BSD systems for a long time, so I'm used to hacking, and I'm not afraid to mess around with scripts and compilers. But I've reached a point when I'd just like to be able to install a system, and have it work. Fedora Core almost allows that, except that I'm a bit fed up of the multiple repository problems, and no proper way of picking and choosing what exactly I want. I could recompile some of the packages from SRPMS, and specify my choices. But I reckoned that if recompiling was the way to go, then I'd give gentoo a try. One of the choices I'm facing is whether to install gentoo 64-bit, or 32-bit. Installing 32-bit on the AMD64 would make life easy, but kind of defeats the purpose of having a 64-bit processor. Hence my request for opinions. Should I go 64-bit, or stay in the 32-bit world for now? Regards, and thanks in advance. Anand -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list