On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:49, christopherkathryn <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wondering what the difference was and why they recommend 32 bit. > Thoughts, opinions?? Does it affect diferent packages?? > Thank you, > Confused
The difference is in memory limits and memory management, mostly. a 32bit system, in general is only going to work on up to 3.7GB. Technically 4GB, but 3.7 is the real limit. You can go up to 16GB with a PAE kernel (which most Linux 32bit versions support these days) but for anything over 4GB of RAM, the 64bit version handles the memory MUCH better than the PAE 32bit kernels. (PAE = Physical Address Extension, by the way). In general, the biggest reason against running 64bit is Flash... most everything else works just fine. And Adobe has a 64bit flash player that I've been using for a while that seems to work just fine, to be honest, but it's still considered Beta level software and hasn't been officially released for use yet. It's still in development. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
