21 Nov
2008
21 Nov
'08
11:45 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Peder Hedlund <peder(a)musikhuset.org> wrote:
Quoting Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)gmail.com>om>:
All I can say is that while 64-bit
My real point is that after running 64-bit Gentoo for 4 years I can
still see no *advantage* (and really only disadvantages) to running
64-bit Linux for a DAW platform. Certainly there are FAR fewer
disadvantages today than a few years ago, and that's good, but arguing
for the simplest solution would suggest Dave would be mildly better
off running 32-bit. There are no applications that I know of that
demand 64-bit processing. Dave's machine doesn't currently have more
than 4GB of DRAM and I suspect his chipset doesn't even support it.
All of the processor features are supported equally, if not better, in
32-bit. With that in mind I simply raised the point of view. Of course
I'm interested in finding out how 64-bit Linux makes my life better. I
just haven't found them myself.
Again, I run 64-bit on one of my machines and after all this time when
I'm given new 64-bit hardware I grab a 32-bit OS install disk, but
that's just me.
Cheers,
Mark
Linux works, and works well, there are a lot of
real world limitations
in terms of accessing media from the web. While no where near as bad
as they used to be you will likely run into issues with Java and Flash
under 64-bit, and the decoders for things like Windows media file
types are almost always a bit more difficult than on our 32-bit
machines
Adobe has just released a 64bit beta of flash 10 for linux:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
And with the latest releases of mplayer/ffmpeg it very rare to having
to resort to binary-only (32bit) codecs. The only times I've had to
use them were some realplayer10 file, and as for wmv the only
unplayable ones I've encountered are the DRM:ed ones and I don't think
they can be played in linux whatsoever.
- Peder (who speaks out of his ass since he doesn't even run 64bit)