| sean finney on 15 Aug 2006 11:34:43 -0000 |
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hi, On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:55:46AM +0000, Jabberwocky wrote: > So, what's your experience with, opinion of, 64 bit Linux distros, and 64 bit laptops with support for 4 GB RAM and fast hard drives, and using vmware on 64 bit hardware/OS? in general most of them "just work"(tm). the biggest problems you will have will probably be with 3rd party (more precisely, proprietary) software not available in 64-bit form. the support available varies from distro to distro for so-called multiarch support though in the past couple years it's gotten much much better. - specifically, i know that some versions of vmware require a 32-bit perl interpreter and libraries, the former of which is not always available in 64-bit distros. - i don't believe there's a 32-bit skype, though on my debian/ubuntu systems i can still install it along with the ia32 libs packages. - likewise for google earth, cedega, and others. sean Attachment:
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