On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:49, christopherkathryn
<christopherkathryn@yahoo.com> 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.
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