Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 07:26, Mike Huber wrote: My understanding is that the major advantage of the 64-bit processors is for memory address space (4Gigs of virtual memory space without PAE, technically 48 bits of address space, which is something like 128Terrabytes of addressable memory).

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Huber
My understanding is that the major advantage of the 64-bit processors is for memory address space (4Gigs of virtual memory space without PAE, technically 48 bits of address space, which is something like 128Terrabytes of addressable memory). There must be some advantage associated with being

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Pete Pardoe
Depends on what you want it for. I personally have two AMD 64 systems - one at work and one at home and have one running 64 bit (work) and one 32 bit (home). My experience is that yes you can get most major apps running on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but there are still a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 19 June 2006 14:02, Pete Pardoe wrote: on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but there are still a lot of the more exotic apps that are not available in the 64 bit world. which one? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 14:23 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 19 June 2006 14:02, Pete Pardoe wrote: on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but there are still a lot of the more exotic apps that are not available in the 64 bit world. which one? Well... There are still

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 19 June 2006 14:35, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 14:23 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 19 June 2006 14:02, Pete Pardoe wrote: on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but there are still a lot of the more exotic apps that are not

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 15:54 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 19 June 2006 14:35, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 14:23 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 19 June 2006 14:02, Pete Pardoe wrote: on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:24:56 +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: For instance Abuse_SDL or slune is not available, and there are lots which are keyworded on AMD64 but not on x86. Neither of these ebuilds have an amd64 keyword. This does not mean they don't run on amd64, only that they haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread kashani
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: you don't need a chroot. Just emerge firefox-bin for flash and mplayer-bin for wmv files. Everything else does not make problems. Depending on the video files you'd like to decode 32bit can make a difference. Many of the stranger codecs are supported through

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 19 June 2006 20:26, kashani wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: you don't need a chroot. Just emerge firefox-bin for flash and mplayer-bin for wmv files. Everything else does not make problems. Depending on the video files you'd like to decode 32bit can make a

[gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-16 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, I am planning to buy a new machine and lately I was thinking about a AMD64 X2 4800+ 2GB RAM. Is it worth to install 64bit linux or should I go for 32. As I have read there are issues with video stuff, flash player. This machine is for work and entertainment. I don't like

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-16 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:15:09PM +0300, Catalin Trifu wrote: I am planning to buy a new machine and lately I was thinking about a AMD64 X2 4800+ 2GB RAM. Is it worth to install 64bit linux or should I go for 32. As I have read there are issues with video stuff, flash player.

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-16 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/16/06, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am planning to buy a new machine and lately I was thinking about a AMD64 X2 4800+ 2GB RAM. Is it worth to install 64bit linux or should I go for 32. As I have read there are issues with video stuff, flash player. This

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 16 June 2006 21:15, Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, I am planning to buy a new machine and lately I was thinking about a AMD64 X2 4800+ 2GB RAM. Is it worth to install 64bit linux or should I go for 32. As I have read there are issues with video stuff, flash player.