Re: Linux questions
- From: anton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Anton Ertl)
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:35:45 GMT
"***** charles" <shultzjrX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Driver availability/quality is still iffy for 64bit linux but getting
better.
Here's my experience:
On x86-64, we have run 64-bit Linux for three years, with currently
eight different models of machines, and have had no problems with
drivers. Even my old NE2000-compatible PCI card works without
problems, and that has not been supported in any Windows version I
have tried.
Moreover, we have used 64-bit Linux on Alphas (four different models)
for ten years, and never had a problem with drivers, either, despite
the funny way that early Alphas did 8-bit and 16-bit memory-mapped
I/O.
For proprietary drivers, yes, they usually only support the i386
architecture, but if a piece of hardware has no free drivers, I would
not recommend it for Linux anyway.
- anton
--
M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed
anton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Most things have to be believed to be seen
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
.
- References:
- Linux questions
- From: Petterson Mikael
- Re: Linux questions
- From: ***** charles
- Linux questions
- Prev by Date: Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question
- Next by Date: Re: How to backup /copy only new files and skip old ones automaticly ?
- Previous by thread: Re: Linux questions
- Next by thread: Re: hello.c,error
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
