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Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?



On 02/03/2014 03:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On 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 disaster
I "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.



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, because
of the libraries.

--doug


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