On Tuesday 15 May 2007 19:50, Jerry Houston wrote: Hi Jerry, > Given the circumstances I've described, would that (a) be a > worthwhile learning experience, (b) appear no different than a 32-bit > installation, (c) be nothing but trouble, or (d) something else? > > If (a), I'm looking forward to using my first ever 64-bit computer. > Otherwise, I'll just install the 32-bit distro, and continue my Linux > education on that. Thanks in advance for your comments.
Sounds like quite an adventure. As Randall said, you might want to partition the drive and install both 32 and 64 bit versions to experiment. On this machine, I originally has SUSE 10 and WinXP. However after upgrading to the dual opteron machine, XP wouldn't boot. It would hang and never did boot. So I decided to install 64bit SUSE. Am I pleased. There were a few niggles like some of the browser extensions, but for the most part it ran and still runs like a champ. Eventually I got rid of the 32bit version and now run the 64 bit exclusively. A few tweaks, and all is well. Programs seem to load in a flash, and unless there is a power outage it runs and runs. I actually don't know if I need the 64bit version, but it's been quite stable so I let it go. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 8:31pm up 1 day 3:51, 4 users, load average: 2.29, 2.41, 2.32 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
