Mark Lanctot;196822 Wrote: > Hercules: will you be installing the i386 version (32 bit) or the AMD64 > version? > > I'm thinking of trying the 64-bit version because the Core 2 Duo will > support it. There are some issues with codecs and Flash, apparently, > but most of these are addressed in the Ubuntu forums. > > I researched a little bit what advantages 64-bit will have. Apparently > on some applications like video rendering it leads to a dramatic (30%?) > speed increase. I'm not sure if the same is true with audio > compression. I'm also not sure if I can take advantages of 64-bit with > my memory constraints - 512 MB for the moment, a maximum of 2 GB on the > motherboard I'm looking at.
I'd pretty much decided to go for the 32-bit version. The 64-bit installation seems by all accounts (i.e. from the posts on here, but also various discussions on other forums) to be quite a lot of hassle for negligible benefit. -- Hercules ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hercules's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34615 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
