On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:23 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > I've been using 64 bit linux for almost two years: I don't have any > single problem, and I only use two 32 bit binary programs: Firefox > (for Flash) and MPlayer (for the win32codecs). > > Everything else is native 64 bit and works like a charm: even Windows > games in wine (compiled in native 64 bits).
I think people should be more specific when they say "64 bit linux". Linux has run on 64-bit architectures for a while now. Gentoo supports Alpha, x64, PA-RISC, IA64, PPC64, and SPARC64. Linux has been running on 64-bit platforms for over a decade, so I'd bet that "64 bit Linux" is fairly stable. I've also used Linux on 64-bit systems and the only technical issues I've seen are with closed-source and/or x86-only software. OTOH the x86 architecture is still dominant and it still likely to have better support from developers and community. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
