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Rob Beard wrote: > 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? :-) > If you want to use lots of memory you could always run Windows in a VM! I've got a 64 bit Ubuntu (only a 1Gig - cant get anywhere over 700Meg and thats with being a programmer and all that! - Full blown netbeans debugging database web apps) and theres a few things 'missing' in the 64bit - not all the apps have been recompiled for it -whether that's cos there's problems or no call.... Now if I wanted to use 64 bits I'd look at K3D or Blender and learn how to do animation on them.... Tom te tom te tom -- 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