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Re: [LUG] 64 bit Linux.

 

Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, JOHN DAVEY wrote:
>
>> OK, I find myself with a 64 bit motherboard. What's the general 
>> consensus on  the best distro for 64 bit here?    I have googled it 
>> but most of the links were to forums with fairly uninformative 
>> discussions. Cheers, Jon.
>
> My old laptop has a 64-but AMT Turion processor. I just installed 
> Debian 32-bit on it. I really couldn't see any advantage to the 64-bit 
> version. Maybe someone can enlighten me?
>
> I've installed 64-bit SuSE on big Opteron systems in the past, but 
> they were running some serious compute code that was optimised for 
> 64-bit and gigabungies of memory. Really not sure it's worth it for 
> home systems, but... ?
>
> Gordon
I'd agree with that, I'm hard pushed to use anything near 4GB of memory 
that I have in my laptop, I simply stuck it in because it was cheap 
(okay it helps in Vista a little bit, but hey Vista still runs like a 
dog).  Maybe someone might bring out a killer 64-Bit desktop app (and I 
don't mean a game, although maybe a 64-Bit optimised version of Mame 
might be nice).  I wonder if TuxPaint runs any quicker on a 64-Bit 
system? :-)

Rob



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