Am Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:59:43 -0500 schrieb "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org>:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:41:41PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote > > > > Hah, I wonder if that's because the script was written before the x86 > > and x86_64 architectures were merged in the kernel :) . I remember > > Heise reporting on that a few years back. > > Probably correct. The machine is approx 4 years old. It's also a > 32-bit kernel, because back then... > > 1) Flash didn't work on 64-bit kernels without jumping through flaming hoops This never bothered me *that* much. You needed, what, nspluginwrapper? I don't remember much what my experience was like, I think it was merely annoying, but it's been years. Looking at my merge history, I used it from March 2007 (my first Gentoo/Sabayon install) till December 2008. Then I see I had it installed again from June to September 2010. So first of all, it looks like I was using the netscape-flash alpha releases that had 64 bit support (in tree since November 2008), and genlop verifies this. What happened in 2010: Adobe didn't manage to deliver a 64 bit version of Flash 10.1. I see the merge and unmerge dates of nspluginwrapper coincide with upgrading to adobe-flash 10.1 and then to 10.2, respectively. But hey, it looks like Flash is going the way of the Dodo, so hooray! > 2) Wine required either multilib support or straight 32-bit linux My box is around 6 years old now (bought at the beginning of my studies with my earnings from (semi-)compulsory military service). I still went with Gentoo amd64, even though 64bit support was still... incomplete. I don't regret it, either. Gentoos emul-linux-* packages tended to be complete enough for my needs, and I could even work with my student edition of Matlab. Of course, everybody has their own requirements to consider, and mine didn't dictate a 32 bit OS. > On a new machine today, I'd probably install 64-bits, unless there was > some weird requirement for 32-bits. I don't push my machines that hard, > and they generally last. I've mostly bought Dell desktops (including > this one). The exception was was because Dell wasn't offering a machine > with 8 gigs of RAM when I wanted it. The fact that the local guy also > had a motherboard with a PS/2 keyboard connector was another plus. I > have a couple of of IBM "clickety-clack" 104-keyboard specials that were > being thrown out by my former employer a few years ago. I love them. > > I've bought a couple of ASUS notebooks as well. Hell, my workplace installs 64 bit systems by default (and has been for a while now). If that's not a sign... well, OK, it's a research institution, but still ;) . I only ever owned this one computer of mine, I could never afford a replacement or a laptop (argh!), only upgrades every now and then, like recently buying 2x2GB RAM to replace my previous 4x512MB - and it's DDR2, so 3 times as expensive as the same amount of DDR3 :( (well, in the store, at least: about 60 € vs. 20 €). I won't be buying more RAM without replacing my mainboard and CPU, even though my current mainboard supports up to 8GB, but this upgrade was definitely worth it. -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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