[nzlug] Moving to 64bit OS

[Howard]

> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 or thereabouts, Keith Johnston came forth with:
>> Hi Roland;
>>    You might want to check that there are drivers for all you hardware  
>> that are 64 bit and that you can get the flash plugins etc.

Roland Hill said on 15/06/08 00:11:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> Too late - now running 64 bit......but all is well.

Hi Roland :)

I've been running 64 bit for at least a couple of years and never really 
had a problem that couldn't be solved.  Flash, Skype (with video), 
NVidia drivers and all the other proprietary stuff that I originally had 
to put workarounds in place for just work these days with Debian/Ubuntu 
(and I'm sure the other main distros too).

You might find some pretty obscure hardware that doesn't work easily, 
but most can be forced into a 32bit emulation.

That extra "2%" performance gain with 64bit is definitely worth it... ;)

cheers
H