32- versus 64-bit fedora on an AMD 64 mobile athlon?

Chris Snook csnook at redhat.com
Thu Dec 27 19:11:18 UTC 2007


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   moving on, i have a roomful of gateway MX7120 laptops (with AMD
> 64-bit mobile athlon CPU) that i use for linux training and, until
> now, i've just wimped out and installed the 32-bit version of fedora
> on them for my clients, and that works just fine.
> 
>   but i figure, why waste all that 64-bit computing power, so is there
> any compelling reason to *not* upgrade them all to fedora x86_64 for
> those courses?  that is, are there any real show-stoppers when it
> comes to fedora x86_64 that would make that version unusable?
> thanks.

Aside from firefox plugins (which aren't much trouble), I've found everything to 
be completely smooth.  I prefer 64-bit for anything with more than 896 MB of 
RAM, just so I don't have to worry about the archaic lowmem/highmem break.

	-- Chris




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