Enquiry,,,

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

Paul wrote:
> I bought a board and processor incredibly cheaply. They're 64 bit, so I
> run the 64 bit version.
>   
I didn't say anything about the price. I just said that 64-bit is not
better in any way unless you need to address huge amounts of RAM. I run
a 16GB RAM dual opteron database server running MySQL cause I have some
1-3K queries a second, but both my home and office workstations run
32-bit since I don't need 64-bit.
> I don't run any closed source 32 bit stuff. Infact, I don't run anything
> that's closed source.
>   
Lucky you. I run flash plugin, Sun JRE, Win32 multimedia codexs, VMWare,
Opera, nvidia drivers, acrobat reader and some games. I almost don't use
acrobat anymore, since evince has gotten pretty good lately. The rest of
these applications I need. From what I so on this and other linux
related lists people generally expect to be able to view java and flash
enabled web pages in their browsers and play WMV and other closed video
and audio formats and from what I gathered trying to do this on a 64-bit
system requires a bit (or sometimes a lot) of hacking.