Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

[Rajinder Yadav]

waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:12:37PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:06:30PM -0400, waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
>>>   Long live Gentoo.  From my /etc/make.conf (yes, I'm running 32 bits)
>>> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
>> And now your code is no longer 32bit x86 compatible.  Only some CPUs
>> will run it.
> 
>   It will run on *MY* machine, which is all I really care about.
> 
>> For me running a pure 64bit system has been rather easy and painless.
> 
>   Gentoo has long been able to run in 64-bit mode.  A few years ago, the
> 2 stumbling blocks were Realplayer and Schlockwave-Trash.  They didn't
> have 64-bit versions, and I did not feel like futzing around with
> compatability libraries and/or chrooting.  Realplayer is no longer
> important on the web, and Adobe has a pre-release 64-bit linux flash
> player at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
> 
>   I will give 64-bit mode a shot this time around.  No guarantees that I
> will stick with it, but I will give it a shot.
> 
I've been running x86_64 Kubuntu 9.04 for a few months on my AMD Athlon64x2, 
it's rock solid and adobe-flash works fine for me. I did not install any 
multi-lib on my system as far as I know.

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