At home with 16gb of ram I have to use 64bit... On Jun 7, 2012 5:58 PM, "James Mcphee" <jmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I 64-bit for the sole purpose of using it. My hope is that if enough > people use it, the stingy close-source folk will be forced to fix their > junks. > > That and I needs me mah extra 32 bits! j/k > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Eric Shubert <e...@shubes.net> wrote: > >> On 06/07/2012 01:29 PM, Jim March wrote: >> >>> if you install 32bit Ubunu Precise (or likely it's >>> derivatives like Mint 12) it will auto-detect 4gig and install a PAE >>> 32bit kernel. >>> >> >> <FWIW> >> >> Ubuntu 12.4 (aka Precise) doesn't appear to me to do any auto-detecting. >> I think that Ubuntu 12.4 installs PAE regardless of the amount of RAM. >> That's what it did when I upgraded one host from 11.4 (Natty) w/ 2G. Only >> PAE kernels in my /boot now, where 11.4 had both PAE and non-PAE kernels. >> >> Oddly though, my Mythbuntu 12.4 (upgraded from 11.10) backend w/ 512M ram >> has only the non-PAE kernels. Looks as though at least one downstream >> distro isn't consistent in this regard. >> >> </FWIW> >> -- >> -Eric 'shubes' >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> plug-disc...@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us<PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss<http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> >> > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmc...@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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