Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo
What remaining software issues are there with 32-bit stuff on a 64-bit machine? Last time I was thinking about going 64-bit on my machine, I was scared off by the docs on the Gentoo website. I now understand that they were out-of-date about some problems that have now been solved. BTW, I have schlockwave-trash turned off 99.9% of the time and I do not soil my machine with Sun's bloated OpenOffice. Between OpenOffice and all its dependacies (including tons of Java garbage), I figure that trashing OO has saved me at least a gig of disk space. My main worries would be proprietary stuff like RealPlayer and the win32codecs portion of mplayer. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:06:42 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main worries would be proprietary stuff like RealPlayer and the win32codecs portion of mplayer. Both work for me within reason. The win32codecs I use with mplayer-bin. And Realplayer works. But if you are one that wants seamless integration with a browser or gui, then you'll be disappointed and unhappy. I've not had any issue with streaming audio. Some issues with streaming video - video.google.com doesn't work. But for anything that's downloadable, mostly no problems playing. Some problems with video from those using very new versions of Micrsoft's video formats. fwiw - I use both Firefox and Opera, but not firefox-bin. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:07:46 -0800 Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600 Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0? I had considered one of the following workstations; has anyone had good or bad experience with these workstations and Gentoo for amd64? HP xw9300 Sun Ultra 40 IBM IntelliStation A Pro Alienware MJ-12 7550a Thinking about it my reply should have been - Gentoo will run fine on any box the vendor sells with a Linux as an option to on it. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600 Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0? I had considered one of the following workstations; has anyone had good or bad experience with these workstations and Gentoo for amd64? HP xw9300 Sun Ultra 40 IBM IntelliStation A Pro Alienware MJ-12 7550a No. Shuttle XPC SN95G5 V3 - typing this email now Nvidia 6600GT Gfx card, though it's seen several others. This system was built early 2005. Penguin Computing 1U server - been running since 2004, 2P Opteron Self-built 2P Opteron Tyan K8W S2885 motherboard, running since 2004. Nvidia 6600GT gfx card. Started out with an Nvidia 5900XT. It lost one cpu - memory controller went bad last year. Upgraded both cpus and now have powernowd running doing dynamic frequency control. Self-built 2P Opteron MSI motherboard, built 2004, motherboard lost memory traces in 2005. Now dead. All have run Gentoo, though the Penguin Computing server started out with SLES 8, that basically sucked. SLES 9 and SLES 10 are better, but it's a critical lab server and I won't run software we test on something critical like that. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
