Enquiry,,,

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

Paul wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 17:42 -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
>   
>> Alex Miua wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Which version of Fedora should one download for a intel core duo
>>> machine running Windows XP ?
>>>       
>> The latest one. Fedora Core 6 that is. If you mean the architecture,
>> then unless you have over 4GB of RAM on your system and going to run some
>> process that will take more then 2GB of RAM by itself, you should get
>> i386 version.
>>     
>
> What?
>
> I think you mean 4Gb of HD space and not RAM. Hell, my main box here is
> an x86_64 beast of a machine and that only has 1.5Gb of RAM
What I mean is that according to this list and other resources, x86_64
has a few more problems then i386 due to (mostly) closed source 32-bit
only programs and drivers and (in some cases) programs assuming 32-bit
where now there is 64. And the primary advantage of running native
64-bit is that a process can address much more memory. So unless you
need that extra memory addressing you might want to run 32-bit. Tell me,
why are you running 64-bit?
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