On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:25, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'm about to install gentoo on an athlon64. Is there enough 64 bit > > software and other good reasons to use the 64 bit version? > > > > Although a long time linux user, I'm not particularly skilled at > > dealing with problems (a slow learning or just thick headed I guess). > > > > But have cross posted this to hear from both 32 and 64 bit advocates. > > Hi, > > I'm also curious to the answers to this question ;-) I just received > (yesterday) my new AMD64 comp, and am busy installing it too as 64bit. I > found this link which does answer quite a lot: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml > > This does however not say if users are successfully using 64bit > systems, and if there are actual advantages to it (double-libraries for > some programs etc etc). > > Greetings > Ralph
hi, kde-3.5 desktop with 512 RAM and few webapps on local apache2+php+mysql runs fine here. martins -- Linux 2.6.15-rc2 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 18:33:42 up 6:20, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.08
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