On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:29:56 +0800, Jojo Paderes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody here already using AMD64 chip on Linux distros (I'm currently > using FC3 and Gentoo)? Was the experience pleasant or frustrating? ;)
Almost no difference at all (we had a Ubuntu installation on an Athlon64 2800+). > Are there issues running 32-bit Linux applications on AMD64? How about Nope. Then again if you'd run 32bit might as well stay with a 32bit processor. There are distros like Fedora Core and Suse which support bi-arch - you won't encounter problems running 32bit apps on them. The problem crops up when you run native arch-based distributions like Debian - you'd need to place 32bit applications inside a 32bit-chroot or get ia32-libs installed. Anyway, given that the i386 is progressing like the other 64bit chips (sparc, powerpc, alpha) which support simultaneous usage of 32bit and 64bit userland, the current development effort is going for multi-arch support in the placement of libraries within the filesystem. > developing applications on various languages (Java, Python, Ruby, > C/C++)? No significant issues (well, aside from pointer size translation, hmm... nothing much really). > I'm currently evaluating if buying a AMD64-bit powered PC is a better > option than another usual 32-bit chip. Any constructive/non-bigot > tips, opinions & recommendations will be highly appreciated :) It's quite fast due to better design but then again most of the boards you'd find here (only for socket 754 - no SMP/socket 940 opteron boards locally available afaik) can't take advantage of its benefits (yet). Sure you get a bigger bus bandwidth (larger and faster than the Pentium IVs), NX bit at the chip level, more registers, and heck it can grok faster in crypto ... then again the even the socket 754 Athlon64 is priced way much higher compared to the Pentium IV's (from mobo to processor). It's an expensive machine if you won't be able to fully exploit its capabilities. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
