Is 64 bit Fedora OK? With which CPU?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sun Jan 1 22:15:18 UTC 2006
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 04:11:11PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 15:57, dondi_2006 wrote:
>
> > I have to buy a new PC for my desktop. I want to run
> > Fedora on it, because I already know it well from University.
> > But I am not sure if it is OK to go with a 64 bit CPU or stick
> > to 32 bit ones.
>
> You should base that decision on price/performance. You always
> have the option of running the 32-bit OS on a 64 bit CPU if
> you want. You probably won't see a big performance difference
> anyway unless you have more than 4 gigs of RAM.
not necessarily true. The x86-64 architecture brings a bunch
of additional features/optimisations in addition to an enlarged
address space.
Dave
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