On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 17:11 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Other have answered about Firefox. I'm running 64-bit Fedora 9
with a
quad-core AMD Opteron with no problems. 32-bit apps work well,
especially on Fedora where you have the 32-bit libraries installed in
addition to the 64-bit libraries. I also have a 64-bit laptop that has
been running a 64-bit Linux OS for about 5 years with no problems.
Memory management under 64-bits is better than it is in a 32-bit OS.
A few years ago, I did perform some benchmarks and found that 32-bit
apps generally are faster with a 64-bit OS.
I always heard that if you have less than 4Megs Ram, then running 64bit
doesn't take advantage or won't see the Ram anyway, or something to that
affect? I have dual core athlon with 64bit but only 2megs ram, which
under either/or, they only see 1.8 or 1.9Megs anyway. So I just stayed
with the 32bit.
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Mike Chambers
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