-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2010-02-08 at 22:31 +0100, Alfredo J. V. P. wrote:
Has anybody done this, an upgrade from 32 to 64 bits? Does it work?
Yes, it works. Be care of version packages. Not always 64bits version is chosen.
Second question: does everything work in 64 bits? Like multimedia (video), flash, scanner...
I remember some libraries without 64 bits version that claimed some dependencies. They were fixed by installing "64bits version dependence + suffix -32bit" package.
One such is xine: there is a 32 bit version for 64 bit arch.
It works fine but better performance is not perceived. Inside perhaps ...
I think that only heavy tools, like video converting may benefit, and then only if they use 64 bit data streams. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktxvsAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X6JACfUx/Ve0w76DfLr6ZPGdkyct+r wDEAn2MAAfeFTHQyFcvIB0yb2XnRyLmX =k00V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org