On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 03:11:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Art Edwards wrote: > > This brought up the question, who uses 64 bit Linux anyway? > > Well, me, and that's all I really care about. > > > It can't be the desktop > > community, seeing that the standard office tool doesn't really > > work for 64-bit. > > TeX works perfectly for me. 1/2 :-) > > > Besides the instruction set, which > > can probably give some speed, but wouldn't justify the cost, > > Before I bought my machine (18 months ago, now) I benchmarked it > on the code that I use. It was 10 times faster than my old 500 MHz > Pentium-III, and 30% faster than an equivalently available/priced > new Pentium-IV.
How did it compare to an AMD XP? How much are you paying for the increase in speed? FLOPS/dollar(euro) are what drive my decisions. The 500 MHz box would not be a fair comparison. > > > Unless such core pieces as the debugging tool (ddd) and the data display > > tool (xmgrace) are working, it is dishonest to pretend that the 64-bit > > version is ready for testing. > > Your core pieces are not my core pieces. When I got started on > this machine, I did indeed find a few hiccups. I debugged them, > turned in patches, and now they work fine for everyone. > I humbly suggest that you roll up your sleeves, and make your > core tools work. I think you will find this community is > helpful, capable, and knowledgeable. > I could spend my time rolling up my sleaves (fortune knows I've done that many times) or I could do what I'm paid to do, physics. I'm willing to stay in the stable sand box to do that. There simply is no stable sandbox for AMD64. > > It would be very nice if you, and other distro's, were to put > > appropriate caveats on the websites, saying that 64-bit is really > > not ready for the prime-time desktop. > > Go to bugs.debian.com, punch in the packages that you find essential, > and see if any of them have RC bugs. It's even easier now than > it used to be, since bugs on amd64 are now considered RC. > I don't know of any distribution that considers amd64 unimportant. > > - Larry > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
