[lug] linux desktop/laptop @ 64bit

[Steven A Hart]

I've been running 64 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS since it came out and have not had 
any 32 vs 64 bit issues.  I do alot of video editing, audio editing, 
movies, image editing, plus all the standard home stuff.  I'm sure some 
programs are running 32 bit but I have not seen any problems with 
anything I've run.

I also interface with my RHEL5 work systems as well without issues.



On 07/24/2011 12:42 PM, Jeffrey S. Haemer wrote:
> I installed a 64-bit Ubuntu three or four years ago at work.  I went 
> back and replaced it with the 32-bit version only because because the 
> one important thing that wouldn't work on a 64-bit OS was the software 
> we were developing. :-)
>
> (We had, I discovered by doing this, legacy pieces that were making 
> assumptions about word length.  They would have taken more time to 
> make 64-bit clean than was worth the trouble, given our target market.)
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Lee Woodworth 
> <blug-mail at duboulder.com <mailto:blug-mail at duboulder.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/24/2011 07:29 AM, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     > I used to have a linux desktop with a 64-bit installation years ago
>     > (when x86_64 were just out) and it worked fine, mostly because it
>     > actually was a fine dual-library with lib (32bits) and lib64.
>     > Has anybody tried a 64-bit installation nowadays? My
>     understanding is
>     > that they do pure 64-bit now, not mixed ones anymore (why?)
>
>     I've been running 64 bit on servers and laptops for 2+ years now on
>     Gentoo. All of the main apps are are straight 64-bit:
>        libreoffice, thunderbird, firefox, inkscape, gimp, blender,
>        gthumb, dvgrab, kdenlive, mysql, postgresl, apache, perl, python,
>        kde, xorg-server
>
>     The Kernel is also 64 bit. The accelerated 3d  driver for ATI works.
>     I see repaint errors from time to time, but that may be a KDE issue.
>
>     I still have multilib support to able build grub (Gentoo is source
>     based)
>     and Googleearth (due to an embedded version of wine I think).
>     Googleearth
>     works mostly but crashes fairly often.
>
>     > Is there any problem (the usual suspect are the proprietary binaries
>     > such as Flash plugin for firefox, Chrome browser, etc)?
>
>     I don't use flash so don't know about that. I think you also need to
>     see what extensions/plugins youtube requires.
>
>     > The reason for going 64-bit is to have more than 4GB of memory, but
>     > still being a user-facing machine (not server) I'd like to have the
>     > convenience of a fully-fledged system (yes, flash is off 99% of the
>     > times, thanks to noscript, but that 1% is needed)
>     > Any suggestions or recommendations welcome!
>
>     User processes can also have a larger virtual address-space. This can
>     be useful for apps that map/remap shared memory regions a lot.
>
>     Databases can also use the larger address space. Photo/Video editors
>     might also benefit.
>
>     > Thanks,
>     > Davide
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Steve Hart
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