On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 04:11:11PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 15:57, dondi_2006 wrote: > > > I have to buy a new PC for my desktop. I want to run > > Fedora on it, because I already know it well from University. > > But I am not sure if it is OK to go with a 64 bit CPU or stick > > to 32 bit ones. > > You should base that decision on price/performance. You always > have the option of running the 32-bit OS on a 64 bit CPU if > you want. You probably won't see a big performance difference > anyway unless you have more than 4 gigs of RAM. not necessarily true. The x86-64 architecture brings a bunch of additional features/optimisations in addition to an enlarged address space. Dave
