On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:30:10 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:

> I'm about to install gentoo on an athlon64.  Is there enough 64 bit
> software and other good reasons to use the 64 bit version?

Almost everything has 64 bit versions, and those that don't, you can run
as 32 bit. The main problem is proprietary plugins, so use firefox-bin to
get the 32 bit compiled version, then you can install the plugins. 32 bit
plugins won't work with a Firefox compiled for 64 bit.


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