I am running AMD64 4000+ on my desktop in dual boot XP/Ubuntu. I have had no problems with either.
Cheers, Ron On 8/15/07, Bill Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
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