21 Nov
2006
21 Nov
'06
11:32 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 15:57 +0000, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
I've heard glowing reports about amd64, but I'm so unused to a different architecture that I've had loads of idiot problems like these so far.
It's mostly all cool and groovy, been on it for about 2 years now. Most things are fine as long as you stay away from binary only non-free stuff as most of that conveniently forgets the X86_64 bit platform. Although for how much longer I am not sure as a growing percentage of new kit is 64 bit capable.
Also (fur Ubuntu at least) you often get a different set of bugs compared to the majority of users on x86.