Re: [gentoo-amd64] Giving up 64 platform

[Mark Knecht]

On 4/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi folks on list. I don't know if I am the only one on the list having
> dificult with gentoo amd64 stability. Most of the internet and graphic
> world is beyond my command, like firefox and java ( always crash
> firefox ) or flash player, or mplayer ......
>
> I had 3 boxes running gentoo on a x86 platform without any problem,
> but 64 platform it really frustated me, its fast but most programs are
> masked. a lot of the programs I use won run unless you install a 32
> bit binary ( so what the point of using gentoo .... )
>
> sorry for the talking. Thanks for all that help that was giving.
>
> An answer to end. It's worth to use gentoo x86 on a AMD64, or should I
> run a binary distribution ?
>
> Thanks again, Allan
>
> --
> An application asked:
> "Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better",
> so I´ve installed Linux
>
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Hi Allen,
   I'm sorry to hear of your problems with AMD64. My AMD64 machine is
VERY stable. I cannot remember the last time it did anything major. I
have a few issues with things like mplayer stranding various processes
as the day wears on, but other than that nothing. It all just works.

   I do have some very specific problems with Java under 64-bit so
I've built a 32-bit chroot for that. When I run into something on the
web that really requires 32-bit multimedia I'll view it in the chroot
if it's really important to do so. I haven't done that in maybe a
month or so. It doesn't come up all that much for me. Mostly I use the
chroot to access one specific web site that depends on Java.

   I have 3 other Gentoo x86 machines here. My wife's desktop which
serves as a MythTV backend server and two MythTV frontend only
machines. They all work well as does my AMD64 machine. In some ways it
works better. I'm doing low-latency audio work with Ardour on a stock
Gentoo kernel at this point. No realtime-preempt patches at all. I
also watch DVDs using Xine, listen to my ripped CD collection stored
on external 1394 drives using Aqualung, and do all my browsing in
Firefox. I mostly run Gnome.

   I'd be happy to share any config files you'd be interested in if
you think it would help.

Cheers,
Mark

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