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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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> 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_ |
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> > advantage 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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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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