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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 tom wrote: > 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 > > Recompiled OpenOffice.org recently ?? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkp1KEAACgkQz3Av8JKgzxTvyQCdEDnp51uVVnejJb9QOzpp3arU hCYAniYXM8IFnGaAOeXLMtVI0GB5eqWx =0VEV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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