On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 07:16, Stuart Jansen <sjan...@buscaluz.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 06:14 -0600, S. Dale Morrey wrote: >> I just wanted to take a quick poll and ask what the current state of >> the whole 32 vs 64 bit thing is now days when it comes to distros. >> I remember a few years ago there were some major issues when going >> with a 64 bit distro and was curious to know if this is still the case >> at all or if all those kinks have been worked out by now? Is there >> any reason given a 64 bit processor that anyone would still need to >> use a 32 bit distro? > > Major issues? I've been running 64bit for nearly 7 years without any > major issues. Never had a problem with servers, and on my laptop Flash > was the only real annoyance. Perhaps you're thinking of Debian's > incredible delay to support multilib and the inconvenient suggestion to > use a chroot as a work around. > > Old hardware is the only reason I'm aware of to still use 32bit. > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ >
DRAC5 remote consoles are a similar annoyance. I had it working in 32 bit but never got it to work in 64 bit. When I changed to 64 bit, Gentoo 64 bit unstable (~amd64) seemed much more stable than 32 bit unstable (~x86). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
