From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZ7qH-0006l3-Qk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:00:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7713E0539; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAA0E0539 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a43so1752230rne.10 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=RkLDEtj/ofHjT9hUvTsvsmQ218it0kMQ5mwRmZhUFm4=; b=rd5fzdaRjCMJcusZI/D/J4yVXSJLeBzYf2WXi6Op5JDRDhzG/SfPKdVxRWPptXWPW28sKbkVr82a6xU3GjO3DVsuxBWR7Bk4DQdqc4sMpsQMLYwLTeTxtr70FClug0ppYt1QADQBaNlHhWR5kOBWqFPVva6rCXKGAMtVs6/7YMI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lWgBKz8LntlsAJpGc0B6dB3+ZSPVA7A6jP9/JLWmH/FfxZ2xbvMkrYd+zL0RFkUcyESO7sCGjJkvBZvKgwVjqVBoT7NtdexpDYWSme/C6FQ01ziqUmX41z3zzphGcUiyf8kFzXRsjBjAV5uCxuKS1yp91ii5MfvNXX25MG6OGnw= Received: by 10.142.89.9 with SMTP id m9mr2848985wfb.35.1205254841343; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.234.21 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0803111000g118efcd8tb3bc98d1865e5f75@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo In-Reply-To: <47D6333E.9020003@ihug.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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 References: <47D6333E.9020003@ihug.co.nz> X-Archives-Salt: 022743cf-3d5f-4557-8fe5-b71e029ddad5 X-Archives-Hash: 3a090831f2325d0fa4ed91e7ae0c56bf On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs 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. > 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list