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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FrK6Q-0007tW-BT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:35:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5GJWKpW006227; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:32:20 GMT Received: from jfindlay.us ([67.137.24.114]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5GJM7MR006535 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:22:07 GMT Received: by jfindlay.us (Postfix, from userid 500) id 525FA11C21C; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:22:06 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:22:06 -0600 From: Justin R Findlay To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit Message-ID: <20060616192206.GC23377@jfindlay.us> References: 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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 4b8f2629-81db-4e88-9fe5-80b7ca412dfa X-Archives-Hash: 98072214578e49d3dd96600f2705abbb 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list