I'm pretty sure most all the important points on 64 vs 32bit have been covered by now, I just couldn't resist chucking in my 2p too whilst I wait for A3 to compile. The whole worry over 64bit has 'bled over' from the Windows world where it was a much bigger problem for them than for Linux users. Things have improved a lot for 64-bit Windows users as 64-bit Windows is much more prevalent than it was but finding drivers for 64-bit XP was tough as it never really took off like 64-bit W7 has. As has already been mentioned, benchmarks show AV encoding/decoding to be significantly faster under 64bit than running a 32bit OS on the same hardware and apparently the same is true for compilation. Someone has mentioned there being no 64-bit guitar pro build yet but it has already been mentioned in another thread on this list that GP requires Pulseaudio so that may put you off as it did for me. There is thankfully FOSS gtp file viewer called DGuitar although its obviously nowhere near as fully featured as GP6. I've been using the 64-bit 'square' flash plugin under buntu lucid x64 for the last week or so with no probs and I've also successfully used Lacies' Lightscribe label printing app under x64 (with an LG burner) without problem too. There really aren't too many other binary-only Linux apps out there, thank your lucky RMSs. This being a Linux Audio list I would say your main question is how badly do you want to run VSTs under Ardour as this isn't an option if you're running x64? On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:57 PM, torbenh <torbenh@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
