f20 - difference between i386 and x86_64 distros

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 19:33:43 UTC 2014


On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:13:26 -0500
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> As I have mentioned, my x86_64 install on my Lenovo is a bit of a
> hack. Hopefully things will be better for f21, but meanwhile...
> 
> I am continuing to have problems.  Most recently, Gnome keeps
> crashing even without suspend attempts.

Boot from another DE LiveCD maybe.
See if Gnome is the problem or the underlying base.

> 
> Soooo, I DO have a drive with f20 i386 installed, and I am seriously 
> thinking of falling back to it.  "All" I have to do, is book from it, 
> sync my files (mail mostly) from the x86_64 drive, and apply updates.
> 
> But what do I loose running i386 on a 64 bit system?  That is the 
> serious question here.
> 

Did it crash under 32bit same Gnome F20?, 
if not what's the harm, only time spent


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Frank 
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