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Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily



Am Donnerstag, 16. August 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:50:37PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> > It works, but why not just upgrade to full 64 bit if you can? It's
> > not a lot more work unless you've installed a lot of extra packages.
> 
> Not sure if things are better now, but there was a time when some
> packages were only available in 32bit versions. So running a 64bit
> kernel to cater for the bigger address space and a 32bit userland can
> sometimes be the better option. YMMV

Thats what – with Debian Wheezy – Multiarch is for ;).

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