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From: Justin R Findlay <justin@jfindlay.us>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  64bit vs 32bit
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:22:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060616192206.GC23377@jfindlay.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6uvvu$pm8$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:15:09PM +0300, Catalin Trifu wrote:
>     I am planning to buy a new machine and lately I was thinking about
> a AMD64 X2 4800+ 2GB RAM.
>     Is it worth to install 64bit linux or should I go for 32. As I have read
> there are issues with video stuff, flash player.
>     This machine is for work and entertainment. I don't like the idea of a
> 32bit chroot if it's too much of a hassle to set it up.

The default amd64 profile includes multilib, so there are no worries
about 32 bit compatibility.  I run no multilibs on my machine and the
only difference I've noticed is that those annoying flash ads don't
work. (-:


Justin
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-16 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-16 19:15 [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit Catalin Trifu
2006-06-16 19:22 ` Justin R Findlay [this message]
2006-06-16 19:22 ` Lord Sauron
2006-06-16 21:09 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-06-19 12:02   ` Pete Pardoe
2006-06-19 12:23     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-06-19 12:35       ` Gian Domeni Calgeer
2006-06-19 13:54         ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-06-19 14:24           ` Gian Domeni Calgeer
2006-06-19 14:56             ` Neil Bothwick
2006-06-19 18:26   ` kashani
2006-06-19 21:43     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-06-21  5:26       ` Mike Huber
2006-06-21 12:28         ` Hemmann, Volker Armin

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