On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:58:15AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 08:35 +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Definitely not. In fact, the solution to my own problems might be to do a clean install of a 32 bit environment. Its just not worth the aggravation. Maybe if you need to be able to address more memory. Or if you don't install all kinds of odd things that are 32 bit only - something which has given me untold grief. There don't seem to be any gains, and there is lots of aggravation.
That's a shame, Here I have been 64bit on my main machine for almost 4 years now. Initially I had some problems with 32bit only software and having to run a 32bit instance of Firefox for flash etc.
My only 64 bit on desktop issue these days is Flash, which works for a bit and then dies (64 bit Iceweasel, nspluginwrapper and 32 bit Flash), but I'm hopefully that Adobe's announcement of 64 bit Flash for Linux will solve that one:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/17/adobe_64_bit_linux_flash_10_alpha/ http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
(I'll be trying it tonight when I'm back at my home box, which is the 64 bit one.)
J.