All, I have in the impression that , difference between 32bit/64bit hardware & OS is handling of physicall address (means handling greater memory size. (2^32 address bus for 32 bit machine, 2^64 bit address bus for 64bit machine)
recently i purchased the i3 laptop which is 64 bit arch & 4GB RAM. So i thought i should install 64bit OS. I have installed 64 bit ubunt 13.10 OS. But i realized ubuntu 64 bit is only for server. no GUI & not for day to day usage. Googled and identified, i should install 13.10 - 32bit OS which supports above 2GB memory using PAE feature. I have installed and worked for me. There are few questions in my mind which is not clear to me. 1) what is the diff between 32 bit & 64 bit machine. where we can see the real use cases of 64 bit machine? 2) Ubuntu donest have 64 bit OS for day-to-day usage? 3) Can i use 64bit virtual machine (using virtualbox/xen ) on 32bit OS Thanks suresh _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
