Robert P. J. Day wrote:
moving on, i have a roomful of gateway MX7120 laptops (with AMD 64-bit mobile athlon CPU) that i use for linux training and, until now, i've just wimped out and installed the 32-bit version of fedora on them for my clients, and that works just fine. but i figure, why waste all that 64-bit computing power, so is there any compelling reason to *not* upgrade them all to fedora x86_64 for those courses? that is, are there any real show-stoppers when it comes to fedora x86_64 that would make that version unusable? thanks. rday p.s. i'm guessing that, since these things have a broadcom chipset, wireless is still going to be an issue as it is with fedora i386 but, in my classrooms, these systems are always hardwired so that's not a problem for me. at least, not yet.
I recently acquired a dual-core HP system and installed 64-bit F7.9x on it, principally because I may well max it on RAM (its used for running virtual machines), and then removed all the 32-bit cruft.
It's not given me any problems, but I have seen recent reports of problems with 64-bit firefox and 32-bit plugins. I've also seen reports some are resolvable.
_I_ don't rely on it for day-to-day stuff (though I have it trained to play MP3s and to stream radio from abc.net.au)
If one of your courses has students installing, than give them the 64-bit version and (maybe) enhance their problem-solving skills. It's experience they will need, work or not.
Might be worth browsing the fedora-test archives. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)
