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Depends on what you want it for. I personally have two AMD 64 systems - one |
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at work and one at home and have one running 64 bit (work) and one 32 bit |
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(home). My experience is that yes you can get most major apps running on a |
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64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but there are still a lot of |
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the more exotic apps that are not available in the 64 bit world. For the |
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hardly noticable increase in speed from the 64 bit apps and the aggravation |
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in getting things to work - I would go for 32 bit - everything is |
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available and just works. I found that it was just too much hassle trying |
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to get everything working in 64 bits so converted my home system from 64 |
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to 32 and if I had the time would do the same at work. |
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Pete |
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On 6/16/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> |
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wrote: |
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> On Friday 16 June 2006 21:15, Catalin Trifu wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I am planning to buy a new machine and lately I was thinking about |
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> > a AMD64 X2 4800+ 2GB RAM. |
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> > Is it worth to install 64bit linux or should I go for 32. As I have |
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> > read there are issues with video stuff, flash player. |
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> > This machine is for work and entertainment. I don't like the idea of |
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> > 32bit chroot if it's too much of a hassle to set it up. |
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> you don't need a chroot. |
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> Just emerge firefox-bin for flash |
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> and |
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> mplayer-bin for wmv files. |
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> Everything else does not make problems. |
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Pete Pardoe |
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