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Neil Stone wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > tom wrote: > >> Rob Beard wrote: >> >>> Gordon Henderson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, JOHN DAVEY wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> OK, I find myself with a 64 bit motherboard. What's the general >>>>> consensus on the best distro for 64 bit here? I have googled it >>>>> but most of the links were to forums with fairly uninformative >>>>> discussions. Cheers, Jon. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> My old laptop has a 64-but AMT Turion processor. I just installed >>>> Debian 32-bit on it. I really couldn't see any advantage to the 64-bit >>>> version. Maybe someone can enlighten me? >>>> >>>> I've installed 64-bit SuSE on big Opteron systems in the past, but >>>> they were running some serious compute code that was optimised for >>>> 64-bit and gigabungies of memory. Really not sure it's worth it for >>>> home systems, but... ? >>>> >>>> Gordon >>>> >>>> >>> I'd agree with that, I'm hard pushed to use anything near 4GB of memory >>> that I have in my laptop, I simply stuck it in because it was cheap >>> (okay it helps in Vista a little bit, but hey Vista still runs like a >>> dog). Maybe someone might bring out a killer 64-Bit desktop app (and I >>> don't mean a game, although maybe a 64-Bit optimised version of Mame >>> might be nice). I wonder if TuxPaint runs any quicker on a 64-Bit >>> system? :-) >>> >>> >> If you want to use lots of memory you could always run Windows in a VM! >> >> I've got a 64 bit Ubuntu (only a 1Gig - cant get anywhere over 700Meg >> and thats with being a programmer and all that! - Full blown netbeans >> debugging database web apps) and theres a few things 'missing' in the >> 64bit - not all the apps have been recompiled for it -whether that's cos >> there's problems or no call.... >> >> Now if I wanted to use 64 bits I'd look at K3D or Blender and learn how >> to do animation on them.... >> >> Tom te tom te tom >> >> >> > > Recompiled OpenOffice.org recently ?? > So you take a state of the art (?) 64 bit machine and use it to recompile something to turn it into a typewriter and filing cabinet! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html