On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > > 1. Do you need clean access to more than 4 GB RAM? (I don't consider > > PAE "clean" access.) > > 2. Does the system in question need to be in production past 3:14 am > > on Jan 19, 2038? > > No. No. > > > Otherwise, either will suffice. I've had really good luck with 64-bit > > installations on servers and occasional-use laptops, but I haven't had a > > use-every-day Linux workstation in several years (though that will change > > within the next three months). > > That's what I thought, Paul. I was curious and waiting for a 729M file to > download so I thought to check my understanding. > > Many thanks, > > If you have 2GB of RAM or less, 32-bit install may be a bit easier. It'll probably be smaller (all 64-bit installs require some 32-bit libraries). Some applications are 32-bit only: many commercial games and things like Acrobat, but there are also Open Source programs which do not build well on 64-bit architectures (OSS is somewhat behind enterprise commercial software development here, 64-bit is now often primary supported platform, I'm beginning to see 32-bit support dropped from heavy-computing tools). -- Fedor G Pikus ([email protected]) http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
