On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 02:31 -0500, M.Lewis wrote: > With the upcoming release of FC6, I'm wondering if anyone can offer > their thoughts on the x86_64 flavor. I've seen some discouraging posts > about x86_64. I'm wondering if there are positive thoughts about x86_64 > as well. > I love the x86_64 on my system. I built it just as FC5 was coming out with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor and installed the 64 bit OS. I have had no problems at all. True, there are some things that are not yet 64bit compatible, like the mplayer plugin for firefox, but those are few and there are many work-arounds (like using the 32 bit version of the app). Overall, go for it. > Thanks, > Mike > > -- > > Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. > 02:25:02 up 4 days, 3:16, 8 users, load average: 0.08, 0.12, 0.27 > > Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org >
