The ancient old relic that has served me well for the last 7 years has finally been replaced and I have a brand new machine at work. It is a bit more “state of the art” than old “reliable” who served me well, though to be fair, many years ago it would have been considered “state of the art” once. Along with the new machine comes a step into the 64 bit world with XP 64 bit edition. A few months ago I also upgraded my primary home machine which is running 64 bit Fedora 8. Hardware wise 64 bit machines are not new, but there seems to be a lagging in the take up of 64 bit computing. Basically software and applications across the board have not kept up with the machines. As I know squat about the software and development of applications I have no idea why this is. With my limited knowledge of these things, with Linux going from a 32bit to 64bit, would mainly consist of re-compiling source for 64bit. What needs to happen to move things forward. To me 32 bit seems a bit last century when compared with the 64 bit option.