On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>wrote:
> > > Am 16.12.2011 20:44, schrieb Fedora User: > > I'm down to a half screen on my Dell laptop. Looks like I'll buy myself > > a new toy - presumably the week between Xmas and New Years day. One > > dumb question: > > > > Assuming supporting architecture, can someone quantify the benefit of > > the 64-bit distro? Thanks! > > on modern machines with hughe memory a must have > no contras these days > > 32-bit is legacy and over the long dead > > i have migrated our last vm-guest these week to x86_64 and > installing since 2008 never ever any i686-machine > > > Big virtual process address space is the immediate benefit that comes to my mind. In 32 bit systems, 4G is the limitation of process address space. For a new system. go 64 bit. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >
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