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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