On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 09:43 +0200, roland wrote: > On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:26:38 +0200, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > 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' - > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Thank you, Rick, and off course the others also. > > As always I admire you, Rick, for an answer only you can give, > professional and extensiv compact. :-) [blush!] Thank you, kind sir! We all do our best. :-D > Is wish you all a nice and sunny sunday. Heheheh! We've been moving a datacenter all night, so I've been here chained to my desk for about 36 hours now. Hey, the sun's coming up! ...again! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - "OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't TOUCH anything!" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
