Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but
>  find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of
>  customization that I can do with it.

Well then, welcome back.

<SNIP>
>  Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ advantage
>  to running AMD64 or should I still to x86?

I run an amd64 as my desktop system. It' started as my 3rd machine so
at the time it was 64-bit for fun. today I just live with it. There
are some limitations on the 64-bit platform with web-based media, but
beyond that I find 32 and 64-bit machines to be pretty similar in
performance. I run old windows games under Wine on 64-bit and they
work OK. I think Flash and Java have been the two larger issues for me
over time. A few win32codec issues also. However if I wanted to get
around those I could probably do something in a chroot but I'm not
that motivated.

If I was building a desktop machine today I wouldn't build 64-bit. I
see no advantage and a few disadvantages, but either way you go you'll
probably be fine.

Cheers,
Mark
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