F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/24/2011 08:19 PM, 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?

Virtualization certainly benefits a lot from x86_64 to the point that
RHEL6 only supports it on that architecture.  I would recommend going
with x86_64 for your use cases  

Rahul