Well, since I thought installing some 32-bit apps on Ubuntu was too much work, you can probably infer that there's a snowball's chance in hell that I'll install Gentoo. ;-P
Nick J. Scott Olsson wrote: > I'm running Gutsy amd64. Before that, I was running Gentoo, which I > still prefer even, > but I needed to reinstall and I thought I'd give Ubuntu a go. I > regret it and love it, > in fits and starts. > > My summary of Gentoo vs. Ubuntu on the amd64 goes like this: > > Gentoo: only some things will ever work, but when they do, they sure > run fast! > Ubuntu: Everything runs, but some things are so slow you can't use them. > > So it's a wash. > > pax, > Scott > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I got a Althlon 64 X2 a while back. When I first got it I dutifully > downloaded the amd64 version of ubuntu (edgy, I think; I don't > remember), but I found that lots of stuff (mostly proprietary > software, > like flash, skype, etc.) didn't have a 64-bit version. You could use > the 32-bit version, of course, but then you needed to get all the > 32-bit > libraries, and this wouldn't just work automagically through apt, and > the file hierarchy wasn't really setup to have parallel versions > of all > the libraries, so you had to fool with things to get all the > software to > find the right libraries, etc., etc. Basically, it sounded like a > huge > hassle, and it didn't seem worth the effort at the time. > > How is the amd64 version of Ubuntu these days? Do these problems > still > exist, or have they worked it out so that you can use 32-bit software > where needed without too much trouble? > > Regards, > > Nick > >
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