Which type of LFS should I choose on 64bit system

[Alan Lord]

Phillip Huang wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I want to build LFS on my new 64bit platform(Intel EM64T), and I googled CLFS, 
> while according to another link: http://lwn.net/Articles/243695/
> 

I hope this isn't teaching you to suck eggs, but my experience with 
various 64bit versions of Linux is - frankly - don't bother currently.

There are too many issues and non-supported applications for native 
64bit platforms. So you end up needing to build a multi-lib system (both 
64 and 32bit libraries) which, to me anyway, feels like bloat that I can 
do without.

Also, I have yet to see any decent data that provides compelling reasons 
such as performance improvement etc to make we want to go to 64bit. I'm, 
sure the time will come, and maybe you have specific apps that would 
really benefit from bigger address space etc, but I'm a "regular" kind 
of Desktop user and there is more headache than benefit in it for me.

This even applies to Ubuntu 64bit which I have tried. I removed it 
within a few hours when I couldn't load Acrobat reader, various media 
codecs and several other apps...

Hope this helps.

Alan

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