afaik the 64 bit version is faster, however there are many programs which are not fully supported under 64 bit for example flash player, some codecs (windows codecs ?) the solution is usually a hack to install firefox, mplayer and codecs in their 32 bit version
i say a hack because it doesn't come out of the box, and it needs more then installing a .deb or .rpm usually a half-baked sh script ... erez. On 4/1/07, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Over the last few years I spent very little on hardware, so now I took a big jump and upgraded my lowly P3 old Linux server into something more like a propper workstation. an intel E6600 processor with Core2 Duo and 2 gig ram. the questions are: a. do I gain anything at all by reinstalling my system as a 64 bit one? to the best of my knowledge there will be no change in speed, I don't have over 4 gigs of RAM and certainly no intention of running processes of more than a few hundred megs in size. b. I just noticed it has the much talked-about VT extensions, would it be easy for me then to keep the system as a router/firewall and a desktop and securely also install a second "slave" VM to run other OSs, or do I need a lean Xen "base/visor" and the desktop should not run on it? Is this worth the headache or should I look into VirtualBox or VMWarePlayer instead? I remember there were some shortcuts in network security wehn Xen is activated, so maybe it's safer not to use it if the machine is meant to be a firewall as well. those are the two main things at the moment I guess :-) -- Curse of the bambino Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
