[mdlug] Semi-OT: Another BIG WinVista misstep

[Aaron Kulkis]

Wolfger wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
>>  Linux has been 64-bit ready for more than a decade now
> 
> Uh... define "Linux" and "ready". Sure, the kernel's been 64 bit and
> stable for a long time. If you define "Linux" as being an entire
> distro (and I do), then it's not quite perfect yet. I got an AMD 64 a
> couple years ago, and installed a 64-bit Linux distro, and it had some
> fairly serious (for my uses) issues. I lived with them for a while,
> but wound up going back to a 32 bit system to avoid the headaches.
> With the arrival yesterday of my new Athlon64 x2 I decided to
> re-install Mepis as 64-bit, and I haven't discovered anything not
> working yet. But I understand that there's still no Java-for-browsers
> unless you go with a 32 bit browser. So if half the apps you regularly
> use are 32-bit, are you really running a 64-bit system?
> 

It's better than in the non-Linux world, in which (for
example, HP-UX) if you run the 64-bit version, you can't
even run 32-bit apps.