Is 64 bit Fedora OK? With which CPU?

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 04:11:11PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
 > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 15:57, dondi_2006 wrote:
 > 
 > > I have to buy a new PC for my desktop. I want to run
 > > Fedora on it, because I already know it well from University.
 > > But I am not sure if it is OK to go with a 64 bit CPU or stick
 > > to 32 bit ones.
 > 
 > You should base that decision on price/performance.  You always
 > have the option of running the 32-bit OS on a 64 bit CPU if
 > you want.  You probably won't see a big performance difference
 > anyway unless you have more than 4 gigs of RAM.

not necessarily true. The x86-64 architecture brings a bunch
of additional features/optimisations in addition to an enlarged
address space.

		Dave