is arch64 really worth reinstalling?

russianpirate · 2006-08-22 02:59:19

i really screwed my athlon 2000 back in june by trying to unlock it and broke it completely.. so finally after 2.5 months, im getting probably a64 3700 and was wondering if it would really be worth reinstalling my nice archlinux-32bit installation, or just recompiling the kernel will be fine? is it gonna be the performance of a 64bit at all if i dont use 64bit compiled apps?

gs · 2006-08-22 03:13:09

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … ovement.3F

is the place to look for comment on speed.

You would probably need both distros (?), on a dual boot, so as you can get some 32-bit stuff by chrooting.

From my viewpoiont, I enjoy the speed enhancements; the downside would be the mainternance work involved and getting used to the small differences.

chrismortimore · 2006-08-28 20:10:20

Disclaimer: My 64bit box runs Gentoo, so I'm talking from the Gentoo standpoint Can't speak for Arch64.

I found that it was worth upgrading to 64bit, people say that the difference is neglegable, but I certainly find that some things feel faster. Maybe it is just placebo-effect, I dunno, but I'd recommend it to anyone. Although it took a while to figure how to get around all those silly 32bit codecs and what not, once it was set up it needs as little maintenance as a 32bit box.

russianpirate · 2006-08-29 04:20:30

besides the codecs (and how did u get those to work).. any other major problems?

iBertus · 2006-08-29 04:33:08

russianpirate wrote:

besides the codecs (and how did u get those to work).. any other major problems?

I assume chrismortimore used a 32-bit chroot environment to run 32-bit versions of media apps, web browsers, and anything else that is 32-bit only at the moment. Note that I don't know about gentoo, but Arch64 is not a multilib system and thus will not support running non-statically linked 32-bit applications without a similar setup to the one I talked about above.

chrismortimore · 2006-08-29 09:24:05

iBertus wrote:

I assume chrismortimore used a 32-bit chroot environment to run 32-bit versions of media apps, web browsers, and anything else that is 32-bit only at the moment. Note that I don't know about gentoo, but Arch64 is not a multilib system and thus will not support running non-statically linked 32-bit applications without a similar setup to the one I talked about above.

I have a 32bit chroot and also Gentoo provide 32bit binaries of Firefox (for Flash) and mplayer (for the win32 codecs)

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