<story><title>Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/CALCETrW1z0gCLFJz-1Jwj_wcT3+axXkP_wOCxY8JkbSLzV80GA@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdsully</author><text>I remember being an early adopter of 64-bit Linux with my Athlon64 back in the day.  Lots of stuff was broken and I got a lot of debate on whether it was any faster or worthwhile at all.  It&amp;#x27;s really cool to see the technology curve go full circle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickysielicki</author><text>My dad bought me an Anthlon64 machine for Christmas and we put it together. Not know much about anything, I remember being pissed off&amp;#x2F;confused that I didn’t have Windows XP 64-bit in spite of having that Anthlon64 sticker on the front.&lt;p&gt;A few years later my brother was starting a web server to host a forum for the Digital TV switch-over focused on the Madison, WI market, shout-out and RIP madcityhd.com&lt;p&gt;Watching him setup Fedora on the box on the floor of his bedroom and using Compiz wobbly-windows was enough to hook me. I stole his install CD and nuked my drive (much to the irritation of my dad, who knew that I would be stealing one of his nights to reinstall Windows when I eventually realized could no longer play counter-strike), It was fun to see it come full-circle a year or two after I was ticked-off about my Anthlon64 not running a 64 bit operating system, when I started trying other distos and realized, “Hey, I can actually use the 64 bit one now!”&lt;p&gt;Fun times. I wonder how many kids got hooked on Linux by wobbly windows. I know that’s what brought me in, haha.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/CALCETrW1z0gCLFJz-1Jwj_wcT3+axXkP_wOCxY8JkbSLzV80GA@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdsully</author><text>I remember being an early adopter of 64-bit Linux with my Athlon64 back in the day.  Lots of stuff was broken and I got a lot of debate on whether it was any faster or worthwhile at all.  It&amp;#x27;s really cool to see the technology curve go full circle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdxhyrd</author><text>Worthwhile? We had PAE for a long time, sure, but I think it was fairly obvious when the Athlon 64 appeared that 4GB was not going to cut it, given some people already had 1GB at home...</text></comment>