[Novalug] 32-bit || 64-bit

[Thomas R. Corbin]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 9:29 pm, Kevin Kitts escreveu:
> I've installed 32 bit and 64 bit versions of SUSE and I agree. Even though
> 64 bit works 98% of the time, 32 bit works almost 100%. 32 bit seems less
> hassle and I have not really seen any tremendous improvement when running
> 64 bit.
>
> For home use I think 32 bit may be best.

	On my HP ZD8000, I couldn't get SUSE 10.0 to install 32 bit, only 64 bit.   
Very strange.   It installs the SMP kernel too because the chip is a 
hyper-thread one.

>
> Kevin
>
> On 5/16/07, gregory pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote:
> > What are you going to do on the machine/
> >
> > how much memory/RAM?
> >
> > Chances are 32bit will do you fine. 64bit can cause issues w/ some
> > applications (like flash) if the 32bit libraries are not there and
> > things set to 'magic mode'.
> >
> > I DO know that one reason people use openSUSE is because the 64bbit
> > version will allow 32bit applications to be installed and work w/o
> > issue or magic needed on your part.
> >
> > That said, chances are for MOST, 32bit is fine and works.
> >
> > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:33:00PM -0700, Subba Rao wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I purchased a laptop (used) with the following processor on it:
> > >
> > > Intel ^ Core  2 Duo T7200 (2.00GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
> > >
> > > The system had 32-bit Vista on it.  Now I want to install Linux on
> >
> > it.  I don't
> >
> > > know the big difference in performance of a 32-bit vs 64-bit OS.  What
> > > I
> >
> > know
> >
> > > is that you could have more acres of memory on 64-bit system.
> > >
> > > Before I download Linux, is this processor a 32-bit OR 64-bit
> >
> > processor?  The
> >
> > > tech support (Dell) person says that Intel processors (for laptops)
> > > have
> >
> > 64-bit
> >
> > > emulator....blah, blah, blah.  Like I am not confused enough by
> >
> > now...:-)
> >
> > > If there is any hardware geek (positive compliment) here, could you
> >
> > please
> >
> > > enlighten the absolute mortals about the processors?  Particularly the
> >
> > one I
> >
> > > have now.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Subbarao
> > >
> > >
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