On 8/15/07, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A question for those of you who have 64-bit capable processors: Do you > run an "amd64" or "x86" distro? > > I run x86 on my desktop, and have no problems. I run amd64 on my > laptop. It has hardware incompatibilties galore (mostly from the > video chip, ATI FireGL 5250). I've got an alternate x86 root on a USB > drive, and it still has most of the compatibility issues. The biggest > difference is that Adobe's flash plugin works on x86. > > So what are the rest of you running, and why? >
x86. I only have 2GB ram and it seems that the main advantage of amd64 would be the ability to make use of a larger address space > 4GB. However, this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit article does mention a few other advantages and disadvantages. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
