On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:20:18PM -0500, Rob Sherwood wrote:
> I hate to be all doom and gloom, but I previously tried to go down the
> same route, and eventually gave up and installed the vanilla x86 (non
> _64) version.

Wow.  Sounds like my adventures in 64-bit SPARC Linux and 64-bit (non-Sun)
Solaris packages.

I'm with Rob - the state of the art is inadequate, and even if you built
everything from source (which I tried a few years ago) you'll find so much
of the free software out there is not 64-bit clean that it just won't work.

Use 32-bit until 64-bit is not just a standard but the standard (the way
that i686 is becoming the standard default over i386).

Ben
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