On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:15:09PM +0300, Catalin Trifu wrote: > I am planning to buy a new machine and lately I was thinking about > a AMD64 X2 4800+ 2GB RAM. > Is it worth to install 64bit linux or should I go for 32. As I have read > there are issues with video stuff, flash player. > This machine is for work and entertainment. I don't like the idea of a > 32bit chroot if it's too much of a hassle to set it up.
The default amd64 profile includes multilib, so there are no worries about 32 bit compatibility. I run no multilibs on my machine and the only difference I've noticed is that those annoying flash ads don't work. (-: Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list