On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:36:35AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > What decision criteria should be applied to deciding to use a 64-bit > distribution version rather than a 32-bit version?
Use 64-bit if: * You might have 4+ GB RAM at some point * You are doing heavy number-crunching (check the benchmarks) Use 32-bit if: * You want to use an older distro, and have Flash or other plugins work. * You have proprietary software that is 32-bit-only (you can usually run 32-bit binaries on 64-bit with lib32, but it's hinky) I'm in the process of eliminating all 32-bit servers in my racks. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
