Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-08 Thread Steven Susbauer
Opera is closed source, I believe. Therefore it'd be using the same binary that everyone else is using.On 12/8/05, Mrugesh Karnik < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Thursday 08 December 2005 15:25, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > how about Opera? what is proper way to determin is it 32 or 64 app? there> isn

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-08 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Thursday 08 December 2005 15:25, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > how about Opera? what is proper way to determin is it 32 or 64 app? there > isn't such thing as opera-bin in portage however it must be 32 bit. i keep > it'cause works with netscape-flash. > > martins I'm also using Opera on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:55:12 +0200, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > how about Opera? what is proper way to determin is it 32 or 64 app? > there isn't such thing as opera-bin in portage however it must be 32 > bit. i keep it'cause works with netscape-flash. There's no opera-bin because the standard ope

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-08 Thread ddup1
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:55:12AM +0200, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2005 11:01, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:41, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > > But surely if you emerge firefox-bin on a amd64 system it will, by > > > default, install the 64 bit versi

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-08 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Thursday 08 December 2005 11:01, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:41, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > But surely if you emerge firefox-bin on a amd64 system it will, by > > default, install the 64 bit version of the application? > > Or is there a magic trick to getting it to use 32

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-08 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:41, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > But surely if you emerge firefox-bin on a amd64 system it will, by > default, install the 64 bit version of the application? > Or is there a magic trick to getting it to use 32 bit? AFAIK, firefox-bin, thunderbird-bin, mplayer-bin and openof

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:11:16 +, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > >Almost everything has 64 bit versions, and those that don't, you can > >run as 32 bit. The main problem is proprietary plugins, so use > >firefox-bin to get the 32 bit compiled version, then you can install > >the plugins. 32 bit plugins wo

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On 12/8/2005, "Neil Bothwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:30:10 -0600, 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? > >Almost everything has 64 bit versions, and tho

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:30:10 -0600, 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? Almost everything has 64 bit versions, and those that don't, you can run as 32 bit. The main problem is propri

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 23:14, Steven Susbauer wrote: > What about things like nvidia drivers, flash and java? (Obviously I could > also just look through gentoo-portage.com...). Does firefox run in 64 bit? > What about xmms and full alsa? > > I'm about to mess with my new system once I get t

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread Steven Susbauer
What about things like nvidia drivers, flash and java? (Obviously I could also just look through gentoo-portage.com...). Does firefox run in 64 bit? What about xmms and full alsa?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 <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread Martins Steinbergs
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

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread John Jolet
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). > > Bu

[gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
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