32 v 64 bit

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Dec 16 19:48:27 UTC 2011



Am 16.12.2011 20:44, schrieb Fedora User:
> I'm down to a half screen on my Dell laptop. Looks like I'll buy myself
> a new toy - presumably the week between Xmas and New Years day. One
> dumb question:
> 
> Assuming supporting architecture, can someone quantify the benefit of
> the 64-bit distro? Thanks! 

on modern machines with hughe memory a must have
no contras these days

32-bit is legacy and over the long dead

i have migrated our last vm-guest these week to x86_64 and
installing since 2008 never ever any i686-machine

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