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From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  64bit vs 32bit
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:09:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606162309.34109.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6uvvu$pm8$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Friday 16 June 2006 21:15, Catalin Trifu wrote:
> 	Hi,
>
>
>     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.
>

you don't need a chroot.

Just emerge firefox-bin for flash
and
mplayer-bin for wmv files.

Everything else does not make problems. 
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-16 21:24 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
2006-06-16 19:22 ` Lord Sauron
2006-06-16 21:09 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin [this message]
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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