On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Agile Aspect <<a href="mailto:agile.aspect@gmail.com">agile.aspect@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Matthew Flaschen wrote:<div class="Ih2E3d"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Kevin Kofler wrote: For the average desktop user, 64-bit has little or no benefit and is not worth the hassles of dealing with incompatible proprietary code (and yes, there is a hassle). </blockquote></div> I concur. Not only is it an unnecessary hassle, 1 GB of memory on 32 machine ends up requiring at least 3 GB of memory on a 64 bit machine. </blockquote></div> Ok, maybe I slept through a few math classes in high school, but how does 1GB on a 32bit system go to 3 on a 64bit system? I have run 64bit since FC6 on my old(ish) Athlon 3000+ and 1GB of memory. I don't use it has a major server but I use it as a home file/print server and with Gnome and Firefox running I'm idling at 27% memory usage. I even occasionally boot an XP virtual machine with virtualbox (although I've used vmware as well) with adequate performance for my needs. In fact, I have a total of 4 Fedora installations (two F8, two F9) all 64bit ranging from 1 to 2GB memory and other than having to install nspluginwrapper.i386 for flash, I've had very few issues. Richard Richard