Jerry, On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:50, Jerry Houston wrote:
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I'll be using an Athlon dual-core 64-bit chip, 2 GB of dual-channel RAM, and at least until the recent conversations, I had been planning on installing the current "stable" 64-bit OpenSuSE distro.
Given the circumstances I've described, would that (a) be a worthwhile learning experience, (b) appear no different than a 32-bit installation, (c) be nothing but trouble, or (d) something else?
(a) At least a little, except that... (b) Is the goal, I believe. The point is have identical capabilities and features with the addition of more spacious virtual address capacity limits. But that will be of little consequence with only 2GB of RAM installed. (c) I doubt it, but there seem to be a lingering trickle of people with issues surrounding browser plug-ins. (d) As always, YMMV... Since you're explicitly embarking on this as a learning experience, you could always set up a dual-boot configuration for "compare and contrast" purposes. I'm really not up on it, but perhaps you could use Xen or one of the other virtualization systems to have both at once. Since you've got a dual-core processor, it should perform pretty well, though 2GB is even more restrictive in a concurrent dual-OS situation.
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Jerry in Bothell, WA
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