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David M. Carney wrote:
Ahh, the time has finally come to consider replacing my Athlon XP 2100+ with
512 megs ram.
I'm thinking about getting a Athlon 64 bit system.
So I want to know:
1. How is 64 bit Ubuntu?
To be honest, not noticeably different than 32-bit Ubuntu. I don't
blame Ubuntu though. The same scenario is true in other distros as well.
2. Will I have to recompile apps to get full 64 bit functionality?
In a few limited cases yes. There are apps I've found I wanted that a)
aren't in any Ubuntu repository and b) are only available in i386 versions.
3. Are there apps that won't work??
A few, but not many, but just enough to be inconvenient. For example,
there are no 64-bit Macromedia Flash or Sun Java plugins for Firefox.
Pros and cons viewpoints from 64 bit users would be especially appreciated.
I gave up and switched back to i386 Linux, because I got tired of
finding apps I wanted that were only complied for i386. The Firefox
situation was also an annoyance.
I made a similar inquiry about this myself a few months back and was
told that the "performance hit" for an ordinary user switching from 64
to 32-bit Linux was negligible.
Based on my experience, that is indeed correct.
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Scott, running 32-bit Breezy with an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU
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