Re: Intel core 2 duo cpu... i386 or amd64...

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

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 06:00:48 -0700 (PDT)
ck74 <ck74%operamail.com@localhost> wrote:

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> Thank you for your reply...
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> I plan to install NetBSD onto a notebook. I'm now downloading head
> snapshot of amd64 to check installation issues. 

I've been running amd64 on a T61 since December.
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> I need to use following applications/features:
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> - Modular Xorg (must)

Works well.
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> - KDE 

Haven't tried it on amd64.
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> - Suse base

I haven't gotten any Linux32 applications to run; I haven't tried any
Linux64 applications.  The two I was most interested in were
openoffice2-bin and acroread.
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> - Firefox - Thunderbird pair

They've worked well for me, though I only rarely use Thunderbird.
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> - Cups and softwares to print using HP printer.

Cups is fine.
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> - Openoffice.

It mostly works, but I've encountered one serious problem: I can't save
presentations in Powerpoint format; see pkg/38255.  The problem
persists on 2.4.  Note the suggestion in the PR that it may be a
compiler bug.
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Bear in mind Greg Troxel's comment about applications breaking.  I've
had to fix at least three different packages that weren't portable to
amd64 on NetBSD -- but worked fine on Linux/amd64.

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