Ioan Ionita wrote: <snip /> > FUD. No examples. What issues? What applications? of those, how many > are closed-source? In my experience, Flash works flawlessly with > nspluginwrapper, so no need for 32-bit firefox. Anything else > problematic? Skype?
Not FUD - This isn't some kind of OOXML war. I'm just explaining my experiences. > <snip /> > > I'm a regular kind of Desktop user myself and I'd never move back to > 32-bit. I've been on x86_64 for almost 2 years now and it's been > wonderful. My benchmarks have shown a 20% performance gain on some > workloads. That's great - I'm glad you are comfortable with 64bit. For me it was unusable. > of course, distro comes into play too. I used to be a devoted LFS > user. Until I tried to build a x86_64 LFS. Never got it working and > gave up. I installed Ubuntu Feisty x86_64 a while later and I've been > running it and upgrading smoothly all the way to Hardy beta. It's been > absolutely great. > > So don't blame 64bit, blame LFS for not properly supporting it. I wouldn't blame LFS at all, that's a strange remark... In fact if you read my original post, you would see that it was actually Ubuntu 64 that I tried and gave up with after a just a couple of hours of trying. Al -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
