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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 |
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> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs |
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> > <jamie.dobbs@×××××××.nz> wrote: |
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> > > I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu |
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> > > but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the |
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> > > level of customization that I can do with it. |
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> > |
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> > Well then, welcome back. |
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> > |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> > > Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ |
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> > > advantage to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> I use a 64 bit myself and have done so ever since I got tired of |
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> running 32bit and wasting half my CPU. I recommend running a 32bit |
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> firefox, but other than that, there's no real problems here. Wine |
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> seems to run a little better in 64 bit than I've seen it perform on |
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> other systems but it's hard to be sure. |
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> Anyhow, just wanted to say I switched from 64 to 32 originally, as Mark |
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> suggested, and switched back very quickly. I don't know if the speed |
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> really changed, but it made me feel better about myself. |
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It's an interesting question and one I've not tried to test. Does an |
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AMD64 machine running a 32-bit or 64-bit install run faster or slower |
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with one or the other. For all of my everyday work - Gnome, Firefox, |
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web browsing, email, MythTV, etc., it's been my assumption that there |
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wouldn't be any noticeble difference. I run 64-bit but assume I'd run |
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at more or less the same speed if I ran 32-bit. I may be wrong. Anyone |
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have any measured data? Same machine, two installs? |
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I should see about 1) getting my chroot working again and then 2) |
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getting it to boot and doing a check. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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