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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html