Re: [LAU] Pros and cons of 64 bit Linux

On Thursday August 13 2009 22.12.30 Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> I am setting up a new system, running an ATI Radeon video card and a
> RME PCI sound card. My box can run a 64 bit Linux operating system,
> and I already have an Ubuntu 9.04 x64 installer ready. I wonder what
> are the pros and cons of running a 64 bit Linux system nowadays. This
> machine will not be used only for audio and video work, also for
> blogging so I need that the Firefox web browser and all extensions run
> flawlessly. Any info will be very useful so thanks in advance. Compiz?
> Java? Flash?

Using Fedora 10, 64-bit with CCRMA here. The system is an Athlon64 X2 based
computer with 8 GB of RAM and with a M-Audio Delta 1010 card.

No problems at all with Pulseadio vs. Jack (using Jack 1.9* from the CCRMA
repo) everything works. Did install Sun's 64-bit Java manually in order to
make apps like Fantasia (front end for Linuxsampler) work. Flash 64-bit is the
only option IMO on a 64-bit-system, it works so much better than anything else
when using the web. Flash do make some problems when using Jack (I'm using
Jack for Amarok and Kaffeine in addition to the music stuff), but that doesn't
matter because I never use Flash (or any web reader) when working with music
anyway.

Can't use VSTs (well it's possible with 32 bit wine but it sucks on my
system). I finally decided to not even dream of VSTs and are happy because I'm
not aware of what I'm missing and plugins from LADSPA, DSSI and LV2 does
everything I need. It's also a kind of philosophy thing: I believe that I
support technologies like LADSPA, DSSI and LV2 by using them.

I have a silent (no fan) ATI Radeon HD 3450 card, using Xorg's driver, the
binary driver from ATI makes the screen blurry. I use KDE 4 with "Compiz" but
with Xrender compositing in stead of OpenGL; on my system Compiz don't work
with OpenGL, but that situation will probably change quite soon.

As a conclusion: 64-bit works good enough for me, but not right out of the
box.

Jostein

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Received on Fri Aug 14 12:15:02 2009