Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-17 Thread James Hogarth
I have google gears installed on our 64bit firefoxes on firefox 3.5.5 in centos 5.4 with flash 10 - all from rpm ;) Works very nicely.. 2009/12/17 Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:51:43 Jake Shipton wrote: On 16/12/09 23:37, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-17 Thread Ryan Pugatch
James Hogarth wrote: I have google gears installed on our 64bit firefoxes on firefox 3.5.5 in centos 5.4 with flash 10 - all from rpm ;) Works very nicely.. Google is focusing on HTML5 these days anyway. They're maintaining Gears for those sites who currently utilize it but I'd

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-17 Thread James Hogarth
Just after getting storage into the webapp kinda funny really When we started working with the tech HTML5 storage wasn't really viable... It's an internal only app though so as long as I can get gears on 64bit firefox 3.5 and safari on mac it's fine till the relevant code is tested

[CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Scot P. Floess
I have a really silly question... but just want to ask... I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable... My other boxes are all i386. As this x86_64 machine can, at most, house 4 GB of RAM (currently only has 1 GB) - is there any advantage to my running x86_64 on that machine

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread John R Pierce
Scot P. Floess wrote: I have a really silly question... but just want to ask... I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable... My other boxes are all i386. As this x86_64 machine can, at most, house 4 GB of RAM (currently only has 1 GB) - is there any advantage to my running

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Scot P. Floess
so to be honest...what really spawned this... I put all my VMs on an NFS share. I've got an F11 VM I run...but on my x86_64 host - starting the F11 VM (its an i386 VM) fails to start. If I run F11 x86_64 it works fine. I' really just trying to simplify things and standards on one type of

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread m . roth
I have a really silly question... but just want to ask... I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable... My other boxes are all i386. As this x86_64 machine can, at most, house 4 GB of RAM (currently only has 1 GB) - is there any advantage to my running x86_64 on that machine

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread John R Pierce
Scot P. Floess wrote: Its a Dell Pentium D - basically x86_64 but does not support hardware virtualization. Its a Dell Poweredge SC430 if that helps??? I believe those were a pair of the P4 Prescott chips in a single package, and pretty much what I said, 64bit works, but there's little

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Scot P. Floess
Ah good point... Wasn't thinking in those terms... Well clearly wasn't thinking at all ;) On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I have a really silly question... but just want to ask... I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable... My other boxes are all i386. As

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Scot P. Floess
Hey thats an interesting bit of trivia - thanks :) Large memory - bah - this silly machine maxes out at 4 GB... On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, John R Pierce wrote: Scot P. Floess wrote: Its a Dell Pentium D - basically x86_64 but does not support hardware virtualization. Its a Dell Poweredge SC430

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:53:01 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I have a really silly question... but just want to ask... I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable... My other boxes are all i386. As this x86_64 machine can, at most, house 4 GB of

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 14:53 -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote: is there any advantage to my running x86_64 on that machine instead of i386... A better question might be, do you have any particular reason not to run x86_64 on that machine? All of my machines and the machines that I look after are

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Agile Aspect
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Scot P. Floess sflo...@nc.rr.com wrote: I have a really silly question... but just want to ask... I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable...  My other boxes are all i386.  As this x86_64 machine can, at most, house 4 GB of RAM (currently only

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread John R Pierce
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Longer answer: every single move, down at the machine/assembly level, can move twice as many bits as on a 32-bit system. That will show up as a very serious speed increase in your software. actually, the pentiums have had a 64bit physical memory bus since the first

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Jake Shipton
On 16/12/09 19:53, Scot P. Floess wrote: I have a really silly question... but just want to ask... I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable... My other boxes are all i386. As this x86_64 machine can, at most, house 4 GB of RAM (currently only has 1 GB) - is there any

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 21:52:05 Jake Shipton wrote: On 16/12/09 19:53, Scot P. Floess wrote: I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable... Personally, if you had asked this 3 years ago, I'd have said Go i686 due to compatibility. But now-a-days with up-to-date

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 23:37 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Any machine I have that can run in x86_64, I normally install a x86_64 OS, and recently, I haven't found anything I need that is only i686. Skype? Actually, my contribution to your list would be acroread. The free pdf readers

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Jake Shipton
On 16/12/09 23:37, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009 21:52:05 Jake Shipton wrote: On 16/12/09 19:53, Scot P. Floess wrote: I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable... Personally, if you had asked this 3 years ago, I'd have said Go i686

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Dave
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: I haven't found anything I need that is only i686. Skype? Actually, my contribution to your list would be acroread.  The free pdf readers still aren't up to the task in some cases, sadly. Interesting that it's the

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-16 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:51:43 Jake Shipton wrote: On 16/12/09 23:37, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009 21:52:05 Jake Shipton wrote: Any machine I have that can run in x86_64, I normally install a x86_64 OS, and recently, I haven't found anything I need that is