Hi,
2008/11/17 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk:
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 08:35 +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
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.
I am indeed a little worried (but only just a little) about moving to 64bit for the moment, due to possible incompatibilities with userspace apps.
What I'm looking at as a possible intermediate step in my transition to 64 bit, is a 64bit kernel and 32 bit userspace. I can then spend some time testing things out like that, and then move over to full 64bit userland. Is this possible? Is it troublesome? Does anyone have any experience regarding this that they would like to share?
Thanks Srdjan