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.
[*] OK Flash has native Linux binaries but they're only 32-bit. Adobe is probably just too small a company to be able to recompile with a different set of compile flags. Or maybe it's badly written or something. Who knows?!