Fedora 64 bits

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Thu Nov 10 14:15:05 UTC 2011


On 11/10/2011 01:14 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:

>   Most of the 64bit problems are fixed, so I doubt you'll have any
> problems specific to 64bit implementation. Certainly I've been using
> 64bit Fedora on my laptop for ~2 years without problems due to 64bit.
> More to the point 32bit implementations cannot handle more than 4Gb of
> memory should you ever wish to have 4Gb or more memory.

Not true.
The 32bit one can see more than 4GiB (typing on a laptop with 8GiB),
if you use kernel-PAE instead of kernel.

Anyway, it is better to use the 64bit version whenever you have more
than 0.9GiB of RAM. (yes, zero point nine)

Go for 64.

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it


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