On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Fedor Pikus wrote: > If you have 2GB of RAM or less, 32-bit install may be a bit easier.
Fedor, My AMD-based server/workstation has 2 cores and 4G RAM; my Intel-based Dell laptop has 4 cores and 2G RAM. At least they're symetrical. :-) > 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, I don't do games, but use acroread when xpdf doesn't handle the latest pdf version. No enterprise-level applications here I don't think. Well, small enterprises perhaps. > 64-bit is now often primary supported platform, I'm beginning to see > 32-bit support dropped from heavy-computing tools). Tools I use like GRASS, R, LaTeX, PSTricks are not considered heavy computing tools. Thanks for your insights, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
