[geeks] Dual Core Rules: your bugs will run twice as fast

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Francois Dion wrote:
> On 2/13/07, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> I will say though, that I could use 64-bit Linux if I had to, while I found
>>> 64-bit Windows impossible to live with.
>> That's an interesting comment.  Would you care to expand upon it?
> 
> I found the same with 64 bit windows, support just suck, half of 3rd
> party software cant run at all, driver support is not that great. 64
> bit linux suck a bit less but is still not ready for primetime.
> Solaris is the only really transparent 64 bit solution on x86/x64.
> Everything just run, you have plugins for firefox that work etc. You
> can just run the kernel at 64 bit and everything else 32 bit, no
> emulation or anything like that, mix and match. And really, that's not
> surprising, Sun has just been doing this for a lot longer than the
> rest.

NetBSD/amd64 is light-years ahead of Linux 64-bit.  Give it a try.

Peace...  Sridhar