F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 10:49 -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
> Planning to install Fedora 15 on a new partition dual boot win 7.
> Hardware AMD 1090 (6 core) with 8 gig ram.
> Doing Java programming and plan to use KVM machines with Fedora as the host os.
> Of course regular stuff on the web including videos, etc.
> 
> So, the question is. Is it still advisable to go 32 bit due to
> stability (say Flash), or can I gain performance and have 99%
> stability with 64 bit F 15?

I've been running 64-bit since F13 with essentially no stability
problems, including with Flash (i.e. very occasionally Flash crashes,
just as it does on a 32-bit system). I can't think of a valid reason for
using a 32-bit system on a machine as capable as yours.

poc