On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:- <snip>
The question is, in fact, whether there's any reason to use a 64-bit OS. Do you have even one application that requires the address space afforded by the x86_64 architecture?
If not, don't do it.
I keep seeing this advice given, but have yet to see a real reason for it. Java and Flash work on my 10.3, 11.0 and 11.1 64bit systems, so that's not an issue. I can watch and listen to a variety of media, so it's not that. I haven't noticed any difference in speed between 32bit and 64bit systems on the same hardware. So, given that I don't have a problem yet you're saying not to do it, I'm really curious as to just what issue(s) you found while running a 64bit OS? Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s | openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | openSUSE 10.2 64b | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.6 | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org