On 02/03/2014 03:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Your arguments may be true for Debian, because of their program that allows use of 32-bit software on a 64-bit system. Other distros do not have that ability, and there are some good reasons not to use a 64-bit system on something like PCLOS if that's the only Linux distro you have. Some software is just not available for 64-bit systems, becauseOn Mon, 2014-02-03 at 10:56 -0600, yaro@marupa.net wrote:You will, especially on this mailing list, get a lot of people who act like running 64-bit if you don't have more than 4 GiB of RAM is some sort of apocalyptic disasterI "only" have 4 GiB and I used 64-bit architecture with less than 4 GiB too. IMO using 64-bit is better than to use 32-bit.
of the libraries. --doug