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Anand Buddhdev <arb@×××××.org> wrote: |
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> One of the choices I'm facing is whether to install gentoo 64-bit, or |
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> 32-bit. Installing 32-bit on the AMD64 would make life easy, but kind of |
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> defeats the purpose of having a 64-bit processor. Hence my request for |
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> opinions. Should I go 64-bit, or stay in the 32-bit world for now? |
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If you need to run DOSEMU, you need to go 32-bit, and it's going to |
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stay that way. (The same is _not_ true for Wine, you can run that in |
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64-bit Gentoo.) Otherwise IMO if you like playing with the OS then go |
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64, otherwise consider going 32. If you don't like playing with the |
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OS, however, then why use Gentoo? :) So that probably means you |
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should go 64. |
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I have a 32-bit chroot that is almost as complete as my 64-bit stuff. |
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Effectively this means I can often use a 32-bit program from within |
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the chroot in nearly the same fashion as if I were running it on a |
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separate 32-bit installation. It means more system maintenance work, |
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however. |
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Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org http://www.chemoelectric.org |
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