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Hey gang, I’ve got another SD card on order to play around with the 64-bit Rasbian OS. It looks like most of the programs I use can compile for 64-bit. Has anyone tried it? Any pitfalls to worry about? I have a Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM. I’m not looking at it being faster, this is mostly just for experimentation.

Thanks,
Dan
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Check out Ham-Pi. Dave Slotter has a 64 bit version with just about every program available compiled as 64 bit in his image.



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On Oct 11, 2022, at 19:27, Daniel Holmes <danielh@...> wrote:

Hey gang, I’ve got another SD card on order to play around with the 64-bit Rasbian OS. It looks like most of the programs I use can compile for 64-bit. Has anyone tried it? Any pitfalls to worry about? I have a Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM. I’m not looking at it being faster, this is mostly just for experimentation.

Thanks,
Dan
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Thanks. I haven’t kept up on that project since I typically roll my own, and wasn’t aware he’s got a 64 bit distro. But that’s a great starting point, if he’s gotten it to run, that means I can too.

Thanks,
Dan

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On Oct 11, 2022, at 9:11 PM, N5XMT <dacooley@...> wrote:

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Check out Ham-Pi. Dave Slotter has a 64 bit version with just about every program available compiled as 64 bit in his image.



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On Oct 11, 2022, at 19:27, Daniel Holmes <danielh@...> wrote:
Hey gang, I’ve got another SD card on order to play around with the 64-bit Rasbian OS. It looks like most of the programs I use can compile for 64-bit. Has anyone tried it? Any pitfalls to worry about? I have a Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM. I’m not looking at it being faster, this is mostly just for experimentation.

Thanks,
Dan
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Since you have a 8GB Rpi4, you have plenty of RAM so that won't be an issue.? The decision then really comes down to the software that you use.? There is still more 32bit amateur radio software out there than 64bit but most of the modern programs now work as the developers have ensured their programs compile for both 32 and 64bit as well work on ARM.? I say you give it a try and see what you think but I would also advise that for older Raspberry Pi boards with 1GB of RAM (or less) like a 3B+, etc.. stick with the 32bit OS.

--David
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On 10/11/2022 07:27 PM, Daniel Holmes wrote:

Hey gang, I’ve got another SD card on order to play around with the 64-bit Rasbian OS. It looks like most of the programs I use can compile for 64-bit. Has anyone tried it? Any pitfalls to worry about? I have a Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM. I’m not looking at it being faster, this is mostly just for experimentation.

Thanks,
Dan
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Yep, that’s the whole idea behind having a different card. If I’m in need of the Pi, and a program is only available 32 bit, I’ll still have it easily. This is more just exploratory, and like you say, I have an 8GB Pi4, why not play with it? The three I really use the most are the fldigi suite, WSJT-X, and GridMapper. But there’s plenty that get sporadic use, QSSTV, CQRLog, gpredict, etc.?

Thanks,
Dan

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On Oct 12, 2022, at 8:52 AM, David Ranch <rpi4hamradio-groupsio@...> wrote:


Since you have a 8GB Rpi4, you have plenty of RAM so that won't be an issue.? The decision then really comes down to the software that you use.? There is still more 32bit amateur radio software out there than 64bit but most of the modern programs now work as the developers have ensured their programs compile for both 32 and 64bit as well work on ARM.? I say you give it a try and see what you think but I would also advise that for older Raspberry Pi boards with 1GB of RAM (or less) like a 3B+, etc.. stick with the 32bit OS.

--David
KI6ZHD



On 10/11/2022 07:27 PM, Daniel Holmes wrote:
Hey gang, I’ve got another SD card on order to play around with the 64-bit Rasbian OS. It looks like most of the programs I use can compile for 64-bit. Has anyone tried it? Any pitfalls to worry about? I have a Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM. I’m not looking at it being faster, this is mostly just for experimentation.

Thanks,
Dan
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Sent from my iPad. Same errors, more misspelings.


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