On Sunday 24 June 2007 18:37, lowell wrote:

Would the list care to comment on the current state of Linux on 64-bit mobo's?

Gentoo has a nice profile for a pure 64-bit system. Everything works just as it would on a 32-bit system, except that it takes advantage of the 64-bit registers, larger pointer sizes, etc. The only real exceptions are proprietary stuff that can't be recompiled for 64-bit, but I couldn't care less since I don't run that stuff anyway :)

On Jun 24, 2007, at 6:37 PM, lowell wrote:

</lurk> Would the list care to comment on the current state of Linux on 64-bit mobo's? <lurk>

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What the hell is a 64 bit mobo? Linux with 64 bit systems is ok, and it depends on what architecture you are running it on. There are some arches where it poses problems and that really relates to the version of glibc you are dealing with. Right now with sparc64 there might be a memcpy issue with glibc-2.5. Don't even deal with comments where people might say "it doesn't deal with me." They could care less. For those of us who actually attempt to further advancement with 64 bit gear, hell even if the gear existed back in the 90's, we know where it is going. It is ok. If you desire a binary that requires 32 bit support, build multilib. If you don't build multilib, I'm sure your fav distro might have both 32 and 64 bit libs. I just deal with pure 64 bit builds right now.

You should probably be more clear on your comment of "the current state of Linux on a 64 bit mobo."

Sincerely, William