Re: [POLL] To continue 64 or not?

["Andrew Robinson" <andrew.rw.robinson@gmail.com>]

Well I made the rough decision last night and switched back to 32b.
After reading some benchmarks it didn't look like 64b was going to
benefit me much. This is a home desktop computer so the 32b will fit
me fine. Just a shame to give up the extra functionality.

Perhaps in a few years I may try 64b again when more libraries and
software bundles are packaged as 64b. Until then I thought that it
would be nice if things "just worked". I maintain a couple of
slackware boxes, and it would be nice to finally have one box that is
extremely low maintenance.

Thanks to all for your opinions,
Andrew

On 9/1/06, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 15:53 +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > On Friday 01 September 2006 15:30, Matthew Robinson wrote:
> > > Doesn't Koffice work in 64bit? What about abiword, gnumeric, etc?
> >
> > Koffice doesn't really do what I need, since it unfortunatly does include
> > reading MSWord files. The import filters of koffice usually crash instead of
> > doing anything.
> >
> > Abiword,gnumeric - no idea.
>
> gnumeric 64bit native works on FC4/5. So I suppose it works on Debian
> AMD64 too.
> Abiword, Koffice - no idea.
>
>         Bernd
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