On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>: > > All I can say is that while 64-bit >> Linux works, and works well, there are a lot of real world limitations >> in terms of accessing media from the web. While no where near as bad >> as they used to be you will likely run into issues with Java and Flash >> under 64-bit, and the decoders for things like Windows media file >> types are almost always a bit more difficult than on our 32-bit >> machines > > Adobe has just released a 64bit beta of flash 10 for linux: > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > > And with the latest releases of mplayer/ffmpeg it very rare to having > to resort to binary-only (32bit) codecs. The only times I've had to > use them were some realplayer10 file, and as for wmv the only > unplayable ones I've encountered are the DRM:ed ones and I don't think > they can be played in linux whatsoever. > > - Peder (who speaks out of his ass since he doesn't even run 64bit) My real point is that after running 64-bit Gentoo for 4 years I can still see no *advantage* (and really only disadvantages) to running 64-bit Linux for a DAW platform. Certainly there are FAR fewer disadvantages today than a few years ago, and that's good, but arguing for the simplest solution would suggest Dave would be mildly better off running 32-bit. There are no applications that I know of that demand 64-bit processing. Dave's machine doesn't currently have more than 4GB of DRAM and I suspect his chipset doesn't even support it. All of the processor features are supported equally, if not better, in 32-bit. With that in mind I simply raised the point of view. Of course I'm interested in finding out how 64-bit Linux makes my life better. I just haven't found them myself. Again, I run 64-bit on one of my machines and after all this time when I'm given new 64-bit hardware I grab a 32-bit OS install disk, but that's just me. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
