any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue Nov 18 17:31:09 UTC 2008


Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 08:31 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
>> Go with 64 bit.  I have gotten 3 machines with AMD64 processors and I have installed Fedora 10 Preview with 64 bit version and they are working nicely :)  It(64 bit) will make full use of the machines capabilities and if it were not for the flash player and other proprietary stuff, 64 is the way to go :)
> 
> As pointed out in a separate thread, adobe has finally stared working on
> and has an alpha version out of 64bit version of flash.  Check the
> archives for the thread.  So that argument isn't relevant any longer?

If flash is important to you, I think it is until is is proven to be as 
reliable as the 32 bit version ;)

Chris






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