Currently I use 64-bit Debian Squeeze and Debian Wheezy (testing) on few machines, and I am not aware of any problems.
However, if you have less than 4GB memory and no plans to add more memory, then you'll get no advantage from moving to 64-bit. Application binaries will also be a bit bigger due to the 64-bit pointers, and since virtual memory is being used, this means also a bit slower work. --- Omer On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 10:25 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I'm about to upgrade my Mandriva 2010 to 2011 and want to decide if I should > go to 64 bit. > I know that years ago, when the first 64 bit versions came out there were > alot > of problems (drivers, flash, Firefox ...). In any case, I never bothered to > check each time I updated and stayed with 32. > Today, I Googled the problem and found conflicting opinions. Some say no > problems, others mention Firefox or video cards, and some even claim 32 is > faster than 64 because of smaller memory pointers. My guess is that the > pointer thing is really not significant, but I may be wrong. > To be clear, this is a desktop machine, not used for development or > programing, so compilers, etc aren't relevant. I also don't have >4 Gb of > memory, so the memory addressing advantage of 64 bit is also not relevant. > > Opinions are welcome (especially, not not only) from Mandriva users. -- One cannot argue with a Bayesian filter. Peter Lorand Peres My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
