On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:44:51PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > I can't really add a lot here as I haven't tried it yet. I think > pure-64 is ideal, but from what little I've looked into it, that is just > not possible.....yet, not to mention that it breaks the LSB goal.
Maybe "not possible" for your particular use case. I've been using pure64 on one of my boxes for a long time. (No proprietary plugins - I've long since dropped realplayer, flash either works with gnash (usually, old flash) or it's no loss to me, and I don't need to access other proprietary formats.) On ppc64 I do stick with multilib, because the box performs like a dog, and compiling 32-bit ppc is sometimes less difficult than 64-bit (a mac G5 has to have a 64-bit kernel). Of course, my usage is fairly minimal (abiword, gnumeric, the gimp, xcalc (!), gucharmap, evince [ see below ], plus some audio and video (some video works, some doesn't). Ok, at the moment evince is a problem - since gcc-4.2 came out I have the old "it crashes xorg" bug which with gcc-4.1.2 was fixed by upgrading pixman, so far I haven't found a working combination with the _old_ gnome versions I'm currently using. But, kpdf and kghostview (from 3.5) are a workaround. I don't have any wifi, but from what I can tell the libre drivers are making great advances. Similarly, I don't have any reason to use non-libre graphics drivers (my only nvidia machine is the ppc64, for which there aren't any drivers other than xorg and nouveau). Why do I use 64-bit on x86_64 ? o More registers, it ought to help gcc produce better code. About 3 or 4 years ago, I did some benchmarking on audio re-encoding and batch image manipulation - 64-bit userspace was faster. o I think diversity in the environment is a good thing in itself. o Because I can ;-) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
