On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:44:08PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote: > >I'm with Rob - the state of the art is inadequate, and even if you built > >everything from source (which I tried a few years ago) you'll find so much > >of the free software out there is not 64-bit clean that it just won't work. > > That's weird. I've found most open source packages are 64-bit clean, no > problem. This is because there have been 64-bit UNIX machines for at > least 15 years now.
My point (and maybe Ben's, if I understand correctly) was about third-party binaries, i.e., flash, mplayer codecs, etc. Anything compiled from source was fine. Except, for my horrible gentoo+sparc64 experiment. I can only imagine that it was less stable then the more main stream versions, but I had to roll my own bind and dhcp b/c the distribution versions kept segfaulting :-( - Rob .
