On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:26:54AM -0500, Rob Sherwood wrote: > 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 :-(
Actually, basically your entire post matches my experience. Binaries (from other than the vendor) rarely worked. Source worked more often, but not 100% of the time. I think that I've flogged this horse enough, and I will happily let Vince's encouragement for people to run 64-bit to stand. After all, it is working for him, now, and his experience is more recent than mine. I am delighted to believe that it more or less works now. Ben "In my day, we didn't have 32-bit optimizations. We had 2-bit hacks and counted ourselves lucky!" -- Ben Stern UNIX & Networks Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener neener. UM Linux Users' Group Electromagnetic Networks Microbrew Software
