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On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:23 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> I've been using 64 bit linux for almost two years: I don't have any |
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> single problem, and I only use two 32 bit binary programs: Firefox |
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> (for Flash) and MPlayer (for the win32codecs). |
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> Everything else is native 64 bit and works like a charm: even Windows |
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> games in wine (compiled in native 64 bits). |
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I think people should be more specific when they say "64 bit linux". |
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Linux has run on 64-bit architectures for a while now. Gentoo supports |
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Alpha, x64, PA-RISC, IA64, PPC64, and SPARC64. Linux has been running |
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on 64-bit platforms for over a decade, so I'd bet that "64 bit Linux" is |
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fairly stable. |
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I've also used Linux on 64-bit systems and the only technical issues |
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I've seen are with closed-source and/or x86-only software. OTOH the x86 |
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architecture is still dominant and it still likely to have better |
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support from developers and community. |
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Albert W. Hopkins |
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