--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, J <dreadpiratejeff@...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:49, christopherkathryn
> <christopherkathryn@...> wrote:
> > Just wondering what the difference was and why they recommend 32 bit. Thoughts, opinions?? Does it affect diferent packages??
> > Thank you,
> > Confused
>
> The difference is in memory limits and memory management, mostly. a
> 32bit system, in general is only going to work on up to 3.7GB.
> Technically 4GB, but 3.7 is the real limit. You can go up to 16GB
> with a PAE kernel (which most Linux 32bit versions support these days)
> but for anything over 4GB of RAM, the 64bit version handles the memory
> MUCH better than the PAE 32bit kernels. (PAE = Physical Address
> Extension, by the way).
>
> In general, the biggest reason against running 64bit is Flash... most
> everything else works just fine. And Adobe has a 64bit flash player
> that I've been using for a while that seems to work just fine, to be
> honest, but it's still considered Beta level software and hasn't been
> officially released for use yet. It's still in development.
>
My dual core has 4 virtual CPUs in 32 bit. Something I sort of like ... I only have 4 GB in that machine but memory never seems to be an issue with it.
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