32 or 64 bit *** THANKS TO EVERYBODY ***

[Rick Stevens]

On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 09:43 +0200, roland wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:26:38 +0200, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:04 +0200, roland wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Sorry for asking this question on this forum, but on the forum of  
> >> K12ltsp
> >> nobody answers, and this is a general question.
> >>
> >> I have a server with 2 x Xeon dual core processors.I installed Centos  
> >> el5
> >> x86_64, then vmware server and now I like to install K12ltsp. On the
> >> download page from k12ltsp I have a choice of fedora 32 or 64 bit. What  
> >> do
> >> I choose?
> >>
> >> On the Fedora site I find x86_64 but not on K12ltsp. Do they mean by 64  
> >> =>
> >> X86_64?
> >
> > i386, i486, i568 and i686 are all 32-bit systems.  x86_64 refers to
> > any 64-bit thing running on an Intel 64-bit processor (Xeon, Centrino
> > Duo-core, etc. or any that supports the E64T extensions) or AMD 64-bit
> > processors (Athlon X2, Opteron, etc.).  Note also that the 64-bit
> > machines above will happily run the 32-bit operating system as well.
> > The reverse is NOT true...the 32-bit machines can NOT run the 64-bit
> > operating system.
> >
> > If you want maximum compatibility, run the 32-bit stuff regardless of
> > which processor you have.  There are still gaps in some third party
> > software support of 64-bit (e.g. there's no 64-bit Flash player).  You
> > really only see a big performance improvement using 64-bit stuff when
> > the task is compute-bound.
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> > - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer             rstevens at internap.com -
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> >
> Thank you, Rick, and off course the others also.
> 
> As always I admire you, Rick, for an answer only you can give,  
> professional and extensiv compact. :-)

[blush!] Thank you, kind sir!  We all do our best. :-D

> Is wish you all a nice and sunny sunday.

Heheheh!  We've been moving a datacenter all night, so I've been here
chained to my desk for about 36 hours now.  Hey, the sun's coming up!
...again!

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