[LAU] Migrating to 64-bit

[david]

Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> On 6/16/07, *carmen* <_ at whats-your.name <http://whats-your.name>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat Jun 16, 2007 at 10:30:48PM -0400, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
>      >  I am getting a 64-bit system later this week and will be installing
>      >  Fedora Core 6 x64 and it will be replacing my current studio
>     DAW, and
>      >  I will be mocing my Delta1010 audio interface over to this new
>     machine
>      >  also. Are there any general 'gotchas' with regard to Linux audio and
>      >  64-bit hardware?
> 
>     not with the hardware.
> 
> 
> Alas, me, I can't get my ethernet, wireless, or audio to work with any 
> linux.  Got the machine in November, and supposedly those issues have 
> been worked out, but I can't get around them.
> 
> So I guess a gotcha is if you don't check all the hardware for drivers 
> first.

My understanding is that there are still fewer 64-bit device drivers 
than 32-bit ones. I don't know. Only computer I've encountered that 
wouldn't run Linux was an old Dell; it would try to boot but nothing I 
tried would get it past freezing. But I'm a bottom feeder, 64-bit 
machines aren't in my price range.

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David
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