32 or 64-bit?
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Mon Oct 27 22:03:14 UTC 2008
John Aldrich wrote:
> I'm about to the point of having to wipe and reinstall (except for some data
> folders) my personal machine. I'm currently on FC6, but I'm looking at either
> installing F9 or F10.
>
> I use it more as a desktop machine, but I access it from remote via SSH and
> VNC. I also use a DDNS name to access the machine.
>
> My question is this: Is F9/F10 (Beta) ready for full 64-bit for a desktop
> machine? I've got an AMD64 CPU and I'd love to use it to the full potential,
> but only if it's ready for prime-time.
>
F9 is certainly ready for primetime now (in my opinion). I run it on a
half dozen 64-bit opteron servers and it works fantastic. For my
production systems I tend to wait at least a month before upgrading
versions, just to let the kinks get worked out, but in the main, it's
been a great OS for me.
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Mark Haney
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