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Re: [LUG] 64 bit Linux.

 

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


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