Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-22 Thread Sean
All, Thanks for your responses, I plan to try out the amd64 version. Thanks, Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-22 Thread Justin Patrin
On 10/22/05, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Thanks for your responses, I plan to try out the amd64 version. Be very careful if you're doing any cross-compiling. The system headers in Gentoo AMD64 are hacked to allow compiling for both 64 and 32-bit. If you try compiling for,

Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-21 Thread Scott Tiret
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:07 -0400, Sean wrote: I have a dual opteron here and I am thinking of putting Gentoo on it. I am trying to decide to go with either the amd64 or i386 version. So I am asking some Gentoo amd64 users, are you happy with the version or would you have gained more with

Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:54:55 -0400, Scott Tiret wrote: I have been running an x86_64 (amd64) system for a few months now. The only thing I have been missing is a 64bit version of Macromedia Shockwave plugin. Apparently, there is no 64bit version for this proprietary software. There's an

Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-21 Thread Rob
Scott Tiret wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:07 -0400, Sean wrote: I have a dual opteron here and I am thinking of putting Gentoo on it. I am trying to decide to go with either the amd64 or i386 version. So I am asking some Gentoo amd64 users, are you happy with the version or would you have

Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-21 Thread Richard Fish
Rob wrote: I don't want to start a 64bit vs 32 bit war, or a Windows versus *nix war, but it has been my experience so far that the fastest benchmarks for a highly computation intensive program written in Numeric Python came on my 3.5Ghz P4 laptop with hyperthreading- on Windows. Also, running

[gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-20 Thread Sean
I have a dual opteron here and I am thinking of putting Gentoo on it. I am trying to decide to go with either the amd64 or i386 version. From looking over the online portage database it does appear that at least openoffice-bin 1.1.5 lists as available and 2.0 in testing for amd64, one of my

Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-20 Thread Peter Gordon
From my understanding, if you install Gentoo/AMD64, you still can run and execute 32-bit ('x86') stuff natively, so that shouldn't be too much of an issue. I don't own any 64-bit hardware though, so I'm not certain about this. --Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64

2005-10-20 Thread Bob Sanders
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:07:47 -0400 Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several Loki game titles around, are they able to run on amd64 gentoo? Some do, with a bit of finding out when to wave the chicken. Unreal Tournament installs and runs without problem, once it's unmasked. Others