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 4.54) id 1FKWXW-0007VM-LA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:11:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2I8Axbu003075; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:10:59 GMT Received: from mailout1.igs.net (mailout1.igs.net [216.58.97.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2I86pZZ002821 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:06:52 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i216-58-59-210.cybersurf.com [216.58.59.210]) by mailout1.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F19359C6 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:06:50 -0500 (EST) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:06:42 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:06:42 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo Message-ID: <20060318080642.GA7489@waltdnes.org> References: <6d16c6660603111104r20e706a4w6f25c1580c66a780@mail.gmail.com> <20060316190746.21434641@chi.speakeasy.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060316190746.21434641@chi.speakeasy.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: dd2e4050-03db-41de-8089-3a44fa3e5eea X-Archives-Hash: 52f25028a8600cde3bf274c8ff5742b5 What remaining software issues are there with 32-bit stuff on a 64-bit machine? Last time I was thinking about going 64-bit on my machine, I was scared off by the docs on the Gentoo website. I now understand that they were out-of-date about some problems that have now been solved. BTW, I have schlockwave-trash turned off 99.9% of the time and I do not soil my machine with Sun's bloated OpenOffice. Between OpenOffice and all its dependacies (including tons of Java garbage), I figure that trashing OO has saved me at least a gig of disk space. My main worries would be proprietary stuff like RealPlayer and the win32codecs portion of mplayer. -- Walter Dnes In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list