[PLUG] PC Purchase

[Carlos Konstanski]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Jeme A Brelin wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:08:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jeme A Brelin <jeme at brelin.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] PC Purchase
> 
>
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, tonyr wrote:
>>  This is just a starting point. Dual core/64bit architectures are taking
>>  over, at least from the advertising standpoint, and there doesn't seem to
>>  be much of a price hit, if any.
>
> My observation on this list and other places has lead me to believe that the 
> 64-bit architectures aren't supported nearly as wonderfully (in, say, Debian) 
> as the 32-bit.  Is that still the case?
>
> Does the dual-core technology require anything of the software?  Does stuff 
> compiled for SMP work on the dual-core CPUs seamlessly?
>
> J.

Haven't messed with debian since my switch to 64-bit.  In gentoo it was
shaky a year ago, but now it's gold.  WMA video will continue to be an
inconvenience until a 64-bit win32codecs (oxymoron?) becomes available.
For now, it's right-click, view source, find the video link, and launch
mplayer <link> in a shell.

Carlos Konstanski