On Mon, November 19, 2007 8:58 am, Derek Smithies wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, John Williams wrote:
>> Derek Smithies wrote:
>> >
>> > Well yes, but you are missing the real problem.
>> > The big big big problem with 64bit is application support.
>> >
>> > a)ATI and Nvidia card support is
Hi,
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, John Williams wrote:
> Derek Smithies wrote:
> >
> > Well yes, but you are missing the real problem.
> > The big big big problem with 64bit is application support.
> >
> > a)ATI and Nvidia card support is more problematic.
> > b)Many of the apps on sourceforge etc are test
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 12:22 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> OTOH & IMHO, It's nearly always disk and filesystem speed which is the
> bottle-neck for day to day computing, thus - unless you are runnimg
> heavy-duty number-crunching processes, such as rendering picture
> frames - in practice the
Derek Smithies wrote:
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Philip Charles wrote:
The big advantage of 64 bit is that it can address lots and lots of
memory. 32 bit has something like a 4Gb limit.
Well yes, but you are missing the real problem.
The big big big problem with 64bit is application suppo
On Sunday 18 November 2007 19:25:06 Derek Smithies wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Philip Charles wrote:
> > The big advantage of 64 bit is that it can address lots and lots of
> > memory. 32 bit has something like a 4Gb limit.
>
> Well yes, but you are missing the real problem.
> The big big big p
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Philip Charles wrote:
>
> The big advantage of 64 bit is that it can address lots and lots of
> memory. 32 bit has something like a 4Gb limit.
Well yes, but you are missing the real problem.
The big big big problem with 64bit is application support.
a)ATI and Nvidia card
On Sunday 18 November 2007 12:22, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> OTOH & IMHO, It's nearly always disk and filesystem speed which is the
> bottle-neck for day to day computing, thus - unless you are runnimg
> heavy-duty number-crunching processes, such as rendering picture
> frames - in practice there
On Sun 18 Nov 2007 12:22:40 NZDT +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> frames - in practice there is very little to be gained from doing the
> 64-bit thing. It's just a marketing ploy.
You're loosing your technical sharpness here, Chris ;)
64bit is the way to go if you want more than 2GB of memory
OTOH & IMHO, It's nearly always disk and filesystem speed which is the
bottle-neck for day to day computing, thus - unless you are runnimg
heavy-duty number-crunching processes, such as rendering picture
frames - in practice there is very little to be gained from doing the
64-bit thing. It's just a
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:13, Phill Coxon wrote:
>
> In other words - is there any point in my doing an apt-on-cd backup of
> all the updates I've installed to Ubuntu 7.10, or will every package
> have to be downloaded again as a 64bit version anyway?
>
> Thanks.
This is not an exact answer to your q
This may be a silly / obvious question.
I'm very soon switching from 32bit to 64bit Ubuntu on my dual core intel
box.
Are all packages in Ubuntu 64bit compiled for 64bit, or just some of
them - i.e.: applications that actually take advantage of the 64bit
processor.
In other words - is there an
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