[wellylug] 64-bit Linux

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 15:28 +1300, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> Having just built myself a new AMD64 3200+ machine I've been playing
> around with Gentoo for AMD 64 and must say that I am pretty impressed with
> the overall speed, but a little concerned about the lack of applications
> that have been ported to 64bit (no Openoffice yet for example).
> What other Linux distros offer 64 bit versions? Can anoyone provide me
> with copies of them? (I will of course replace media).
> 
Openoffice 1.x.x will probably never support 64bit.  Support is being
worked on for Openoffice.org 2, but it's not there yet.  Mozilla firefox
is here but the plugins need to be ported still, especially flash,
realplayer, java??


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