Kevin Kofler wrote:
Charlie McVeigh <cbmcveigh <at> gmail.com> writes:
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?
64-bit is faster (mainly because x86_64 has more registers to use) and it can
run everything 32-bit can (almost all the packages in Fedora are available in
64-bit versions and there are multilibs to run 3rd-party 32-bit-only
binary-only junk), so really there's no good reason to use the obsolete 32-bit
version.
IMHO, it makes no sense to run a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit-capable CPU, especially
for x86 (x86_64 is really a huge improvement).
Let me offer one, 32 bit applications are smaller and nicer to cache. Depending
on the application that can make a difference. Also minute gains in load speed,
memory using, probably too small to measure.
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the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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