Re: Is amd64 ready for the desktop?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:05:38 -0400
"Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:

> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > maintainer.)  I don't know what to do about Openoffice -- that's
> > serious enough that I contemplated switching back to i386.  In some
> 
> I used openoffice2-2.3.1nb3 this morning on amd64 and it worked like
> a champ.
> 
Some things -- perhaps most things -- do.  I was using it to read Word
and Powerpoint today, also.  However, I can't save files in Powerpoint
format. That's serious.  (I posted about this a few weeks ago -- I get
the error message "Error saving the document ...: Write Error.  The
file could not be written."  I can save the file in odp format, but
that doesn't do much good in the real world...

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb