On Sun 18 Nov 2007 12:22:40 NZDT +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > frames - in practice there is very little to be gained from doing the > 64-bit thing. It's just a marketing ploy.
You're loosing your technical sharpness here, Chris ;) 64bit is the way to go if you want more than 2GB of memory. You have twice the memory bandwidth - nice if you do video editing. My raw photo editor runs quite fast on 64bit. Konqueror just works. Not sure about firefox and openoffice, that gtk/gnome looser stuff seems to me what is the hype, but aforementioned apps run very nicely[1] on 64bit too as 32bit apps. The problem are mostly commercial vendors, and lousy integration by distros in the 64bit area. I read Sun's java webstart is a WebStop(TM) on 64bit, but haven't yet verified myself. If of course all the fun you get out of a computer is some email, some web pages and a nicely printed letter, by all means stick with 32bit. Otherwise 64bit looks like the way forward to me. Btw whether something 64bit works or not has little to do with whether you compiled it yourself. Volker [1] Within the limit of what the app is supposed to do. Thank goodness SUSE replaced that file dialog abomination with a KDE one in OO. -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
