On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:22:05 +0100 Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk allegedly wrote:
Chris G wrote:
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 07:27:26AM +0100, mbm wrote:
Well, unless you intend installing a 64 bit distro, there's no point in worrying about a upgrade path from 4 Gig of RAM
I'm running a 64-bit Fedora at the moment, for Vmware/Virtualbox it makes sense. I have 6Gb of memory.
Assuming hardware supports it (most new hardware will, surely) is there any good reason *not* to install a 64-bit O/S now?
I've been running 64-bit Ubuntu since 7.04 (maybe before that, I can't remember) and never had any significant problems. It's only where you need to use Windows code (eg ndiswrapper, flash*) that it tends to be problematic but there's workarounds for stuff like that. Generally, though, Linux has been 64-bit capable for so long that O/S problems have been ironed out long ago.
Yes I'd use a 64 bit distro as a server - particularly if I was going to virtualise servers on top. I tried running a 64 bit distro on my desktop about 3 or 4 years ago (not sure exactly which one, but it was probably Suse since that was what I was using at the time). I had several problems with desktop apps not being available in the 64 bit version (and I couldn't be bothered to try to fix them all because I had better things to do).
If it is now possible to get a fully usable 64 bit personal desktop running I'll give it a go. Anyone got any current experience to share? Mark?
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