On Sunday 21 May 2006 03:28, BlackTopBum stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.gentoo...:/

> Have just put together a new boxen which is built upon a Sempron and
> an Asus K8N-UAYVZ ... in about a fortnight I plan to do a new install
> for 64bit since there's no direct upgrade path as yet. After following
> some threads here, such as Mark Baker's "Gentoo Installation", it
> occurs to me that there are some pitfalls others of you here who have
> survived after making the jump which I could benefit by, as well as
> any Google searches by others to come. So, what I'm requesting now is
> that you who have switched tell me what to do or avoid - if you're a
> mind to - as it pertains to KDE/Gnome, Openoffice, and anything else
> you'd like to share.

Not that I'm the expert, and I certainly don't even have a 64-bit
machine, but one of the things that regularly keeps popping up in
various newsgroups when it comes to 64-bit GNU/Linux is that things
like Firefox are best chosen as 32-bit versions, even if only because
some proprietary plugins - FlashPlayer, among others - can only work as
such.

I am yet to make the transition to Gentoo myself and so I may not be the
right person to give you advice on this, but the above seems to show up
on a regular basis, which is why I mention it. ;-)

--
With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user # 223157)