x86_64 Vs. i386

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 30 20:06:31 UTC 2007


Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> Ok, now that FC7 is about to be released shortly I am going to upgrade 
> from FC6 X86_64 to FC7.  My question is, is it worth going with the 
> x64_86 version?  Although I never tried the i386 version on this 
> hardware I found that I had a lot of grief with internet plugins on the 
> 64 bit architecture and noticed that everything seemed to treat the 
> hardware as a dual processor machine (eg no single process would take 
> more than 50% of the total CPU).
> 
> So what's the advantage of using the 64 bit OS anything?  I don't run 
> that many CPU intensive applications, my use consists of the vast 
> majority of use being internet browsing, email, word processing.
> 
> Right now I'm leaning towards the i386 version, any reason not to?
> suggestions, comments?

What are the hardware specs of this machine? Just from the description 
of usage it sounds like you just choose the 32 bit version. Note that 
you will have do a clean installation instead of a upgrade for the arch 
switch.

Rahul




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