On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:04 +0200, roland wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for asking this question on this forum, but on the forum of K12ltsp > nobody answers, and this is a general question. > > I have a server with 2 x Xeon dual core processors.I installed Centos el5 > x86_64, then vmware server and now I like to install K12ltsp. On the > download page from k12ltsp I have a choice of fedora 32 or 64 bit. What do > I choose? > > On the Fedora site I find x86_64 but not on K12ltsp. Do they mean by 64 => > X86_64? i386, i486, i568 and i686 are all 32-bit systems. x86_64 refers to any 64-bit thing running on an Intel 64-bit processor (Xeon, Centrino Duo-core, etc. or any that supports the E64T extensions) or AMD 64-bit processors (Athlon X2, Opteron, etc.). Note also that the 64-bit machines above will happily run the 32-bit operating system as well. The reverse is NOT true...the 32-bit machines can NOT run the 64-bit operating system. If you want maximum compatibility, run the 32-bit stuff regardless of which processor you have. There are still gaps in some third party software support of 64-bit (e.g. there's no 64-bit Flash player). You really only see a big performance improvement using 64-bit stuff when the task is compute-bound. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - BASIC is the Computer Science version of `Scientific Creationism' - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
