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Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: |
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> Hi folks on list. I don't know if I am the only one on the list having |
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> dificult with gentoo amd64 stability. Most of the internet and graphic |
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> world is beyond my command, like firefox and java ( always crash |
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> firefox ) or flash player, or mplayer ...... |
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> I had 3 boxes running gentoo on a x86 platform without any problem, |
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> but 64 platform it really frustated me, its fast but most programs are |
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> masked. a lot of the programs I use won run unless you install a 32 |
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> bit binary ( so what the point of using gentoo .... ) |
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> sorry for the talking. Thanks for all that help that was giving. |
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> An answer to end. It's worth to use gentoo x86 on a AMD64, or should I |
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> run a binary distribution ? |
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You'll find a majority of the 64-bit distros suffer from the same |
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problems. I run a large mix of 64-bit systems of various distros and |
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they all have problems with flash (32-bit only) and video players. |
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Personally, I've had much more success running gentoo on AMD64 than |
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other distros (although FC5 is pretty good out of the box), so I'm not |
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sure you'll be much happier with another 64-bit distro. However, 64-bit |
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/is/ the future and if we push some of the vendors (not open source, I'm |
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personally speaking of Adobe, ATI, etc) we'll get better linux support |
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for the 64-bit platform. |
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> Thanks again, Allan |
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> An application asked: |
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> "Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better", |
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> so I´ve installed Linux |
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