On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 07:22:06PM +0200, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote: > måndag 27 september 2010 22.26.17 skrev Josh Lawrence: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm late to the party when it comes to 64-bit machines, so apologies > > in advance if I am asking something that should be obvious... > > > > I recently purchased a 64 bit machine and like it a lot, but I've > > noticed that some software that is usually available on a 32 bit > > machine isn't available in the 64 bit repos that I am using. Can I > > install the 32 bit version of my distro (Debian) on my 64 bit machine? > > I'm assuming that would give me access to all 32 bit software. It > > would also be a performance hit, correct? > > Another thing you might miss on a 64-bit machine/OS is the lack of real VST > support (AFAIK) and some commercial native 64-bit Linux apps like Guitar Pro. i develop fst on a 64bit machine. > I made a decision to use 64 bit only; I have several big sound sample libs > (like NDK where the Hihat alone weighs more than 3.5 GB!) and did not want to > have any memory limits, so VST's just don't exists in my world. I know that's > a lot of great VST's around, I just don't care and is (in my ignorance) more > than happy with what the 64-bit world can offer without wrappers for 32-bit > programs and wine. Well, to be honest: I miss a 64-bit version of Guitar Pro. sometimes running 32bit apps is a bit of hassle, but it is possible. distros fuck this up sometimes. -- torben Hohn _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
