D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| From: Robert Spangler <bms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| I'm looking to upgrade my system with the following;
| | Asus A8V Deluxe (v. 2.0) K8T800 Pro Athlon 939-pin
| AMD 64 3500+ 512k 90nm (939)
| Corsair 1G DDR400
| ATI 9600 Pro w/128MB
| | Anyone see any problems here? Should I be watching out for anything | that FC3 might give me a problem with?
I run FC3 on x86_64. Pretty good, but not as tested as i386.
- rpm handles "multilib" (the ability to have the same library installed several times, once for each architecture), but has at least one mostly harmless bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144747
apt-get does not handle multilib correctly.
Supposedly, yum does understand multilib.
Yes.. I use yum here and it works perfectly with multilib.
- some things are not available in x86_64
- ivtv doesn't yet work for me. I have submitted some patches that have been accepted and some that have not.
- there is no 64-bit Flash plugin, so if you need Flash
you need to use a 32-bit browser
And no java plugin either ....
I think they have released a beta driver , since livna has a rpm for x86_64 in the unstable dir.....- 64-bit ndiswrapper is very new and may still be shakey. Few 64-bit MS Windows wireless drivers exist anyway.
- I don't know whether ATI has made available proprietary X drivers for x86_64. So far, I have not been seduced by binary-only drivers.
Livna is building the x86_64 packages again , but last time I checked , the repo wasnt yum capable yet , since they were still testing- some key repositories don't have pre-built x86_64 binaries and it is hit-or-miss whether their source RPMs build correctly on x86_64. Those that do have binaries may not have tested them.
most packages... (according to http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355 )
As for the other repositories... I think all of them (now that livna is building them back) have x86_64 packages... last time I checked,
dag , freshrpms and fedora extras already have x86_64 packages...
-- Pedro Macedo
