Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:55:06PM EST, charlie derr wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 02/26/2009 07:41 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >>>What applications or usage scenarios get more out of your hardware as
> >>>with 32bit / 64bit kernel?
> >>>
> >>>How much better are those on amd64?
> >>>
> >>
> >>If you have over 3 GB of memory then you need 64 bit.
> >
> >I really think that's myth.
> >
>
> I'll confirm that. My laptop has 4G of RAM (though only 3.4G is
> addressable, but my understanding is that that's a BIOS limitation
> (thanks Dell) since both windows XP (which I dual boot) and Debian show
> the same value).
Yeah, but think of the headaches you (and Dell) saved yoursel{f, ves}
looking for a motherboard that supports a maximum of 3.4G of RAM and
1.7G memory chips.
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