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 1FrLnq-00048N-7o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:24:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5GLJ6Ur011007; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:19:06 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5GL9Y7R023839 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:09:34 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BCBA201022 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:09:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA6320101F for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:09:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 14294136 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:09:34 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:09:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: In-Reply-To: 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606162309.34109.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: db1c7a66-04eb-49e5-acf7-2b6ae88657f3 X-Archives-Hash: 327630f1c3a24f33fd08f15a3ccbeddb 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