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On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Peder Hedlund  wrote:

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> Quoting Mark Knecht :

>

> All I can say is that while 64-bit

>> Linux works, and works well, there are a lot of real world limitations

>> in terms of accessing media from the web. While no where near as bad

>> as they used to be you will likely run into issues with Java and Flash

>> under 64-bit, and the decoders for things like Windows media file

>> types are almost always a bit more difficult than on our 32-bit

>> machines

>

> Adobe has just released a 64bit beta of flash 10 for linux:

> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

>

> And with the latest releases of mplayer/ffmpeg it very rare to having

> to resort to binary-only (32bit) codecs. The only times I've had to

> use them were some realplayer10 file, and as for wmv the only

> unplayable ones I've encountered are the DRM:ed ones and I don't think

> they can be played in linux whatsoever.

>

> - Peder (who speaks out of his ass since he doesn't even run 64bit)

My real point is that after running 64-bit Gentoo for 4 years I can

still see no *advantage* (and really only disadvantages) to running

64-bit Linux for a DAW platform. Certainly there are FAR fewer

disadvantages today than a few years ago, and that's good, but arguing

for the simplest solution would suggest Dave would be mildly better

off running 32-bit. There are no applications that I know of that

demand 64-bit processing. Dave's machine doesn't currently have more

than 4GB of DRAM and I suspect his chipset doesn't even support it.

All of the processor features are supported equally, if not better, in

32-bit. With that in mind I simply raised the point of view. Of course

I'm interested in finding out how 64-bit Linux makes my life better. I

just haven't found them myself.
Again, I run 64-bit on one of my machines and after all this time when

I'm given new 64-bit hardware I grab a 32-bit OS install disk, but

that's just me.
Cheers,

Mark

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