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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs@×××××××.nz> wrote: |
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> I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but |
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> find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of |
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> customization that I can do with it. |
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Well then, welcome back. |
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<SNIP> |
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> Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ advantage |
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> to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? |
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I run an amd64 as my desktop system. It' started as my 3rd machine so |
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at the time it was 64-bit for fun. today I just live with it. There |
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are some limitations on the 64-bit platform with web-based media, but |
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beyond that I find 32 and 64-bit machines to be pretty similar in |
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performance. I run old windows games under Wine on 64-bit and they |
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work OK. I think Flash and Java have been the two larger issues for me |
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over time. A few win32codec issues also. However if I wanted to get |
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around those I could probably do something in a chroot but I'm not |
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that motivated. |
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If I was building a desktop machine today I wouldn't build 64-bit. I |
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see no advantage and a few disadvantages, but either way you go you'll |
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probably be fine. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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