long wait...

alan alan at clueserver.org
Fri Nov 9 20:36:55 UTC 2007


On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Frank Cox wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:17:03 +0100
> Marcel Janssen <korgull at home.nl> wrote:
>
>> Giving up on this for the time being (until there's a fixed installer I
>> guess).
>
> I'm thinking that now might be a good time to switch this computer over to
> 64-bit F8.  I'm not really clear on what benefits one gets by doing so simply
> because I've never set up a computer that way before.

According to a friend who has run tests, it will run about twice as fast 
in 64-bit mode.

I run 64-bit on my mail server and laptop.  The mail server has no 
problems with 64-bit code.  (Other than absurdly low load levels, as if 
that is a problem...)

I do not have F8 on my laptop yet.  With F7 I have issues with suspend. 
Flash is a bit of an issue.  (Adobe still does not have a 64-bit Flash 
plug-in, but there are open source solutions that work on about 85% of 
sites.) Some other minor issues, all web plug in related.  Other than 
that, it works great.

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