Charlie McVeigh wrote:
I apologize if this question has been asked before. I have a new Thinkpad T61 in scheduled to arrive sometime next week. I want to install Fedora 9 on it. Being as it has a Core 2 Duo processor, I assume I can install the 64 bit version of Fedora 9. My question is what are the pros and cons that I need to consider when choosing 32 or 64 bit version of Fedora 9? I am currently using a Thinkpad T42 running Fedora Core 7, so I have no experience with 64 bit linux or associated issues. Thanks in advance for any and all advice. Charlie
64 bit is a minor hassle - flash for instance, and screwing around with multilibs. OTOH, if you want to use more than 4gb mem - or have an application where it really makes a difference it's not too bad.
When I looked, I couldn't find any app I used where 64bit was useful, even ffmpeg. At the time, though, I could find very little data on this.
IOW, stick with 32bit unless you've got some real 64bit benefit. sean -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
