I'm about to mess with my new system once I get the video card, it too is an AMD64.
On 12/7/05, Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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