On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:59 AM, pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My > question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are > stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. > > The applications are: > - Seamoneky/Firefox > - Java > - Flash > - Audacious > - mplayer > - VirtualBox/VMware > - Qemu > - Kerberos/OpenLDAP/OpenSSH (for these I think they are stable) > - X.org/fluxbox > - system suspending > > I have 4GB RAM and I know better is to compile for 64 bits, but for me is more > important stability. > > Thanks a lot > > Pat
I think both 32-bit and 64-bit are very stable. I run both here. My input would be that 32-bit Flash and Java are still more compatible with stuff that's out there on the web and I'm generally better of on my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine than my own 64-bit machine. don't get me wrong - 64-bit works really, really well or I would have dropped it, but if you build 64-bit Gentoo you want to build with multi-lib so you can run 32-bit stuff along the way. Anyway, I'm not the most software technical guy and I don't run much stuff that isn't marked stable so I cannot give you a leading edge view but if I had purchased your hardware I'd build and run 32-bit today and leave a 20GB partition for building 64-bit later. Good luck, Mark
