AMD 64 Bit Processor Info Wanted

[Sasha Tsykin]

Hey,

I use an AMD64 bit processor in Ubuntu, and find it very useful. There is
only really one pro, you will get an operating system almost twice as fast
as the 32-bit version. The downsides seem to be that the macromedia flash
plugin doesn't work yet in 64-bit and firefox, at least for me, seems to
exhibit a degree of instability. I like 64-it because I do a lot of video
encodin and so the extra speed is very useful for me.

With regard to your question about recompiling, You will have to recompile
applications, probably, because if they are compiled with 32-bit libraries,
they will not work with 64-bit compiles, however, any programs you got
through synaptic will work just as well in 64-bit as in 32-bit, if not
better.

Probably not worth the effort unless you need the extra processing power for
something specific.

Sasha
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