Re: 32- versus 64-bit fedora on an AMD 64 mobile athlon?

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
  moving on, i have a roomful of gateway MX7120 laptops (with AMD
64-bit mobile athlon CPU) that i use for linux training and, until
now, i've just wimped out and installed the 32-bit version of fedora
on them for my clients, and that works just fine.

  but i figure, why waste all that 64-bit computing power, so is there
any compelling reason to *not* upgrade them all to fedora x86_64 for
those courses?  that is, are there any real show-stoppers when it
comes to fedora x86_64 that would make that version unusable?
thanks.

rday

p.s.  i'm guessing that, since these things have a broadcom chipset,
wireless is still going to be an issue as it is with fedora i386 but,
in my classrooms, these systems are always hardwired so that's not a
problem for me.  at least, not yet.


I recently acquired a dual-core HP system and installed 64-bit F7.9x on it, principally because I may well max it on RAM (its used for running virtual machines), and then removed all the 32-bit cruft.

It's not given me any problems, but I have seen recent reports of problems with 64-bit firefox and 32-bit plugins. I've also seen reports some are resolvable.

_I_ don't rely on it for day-to-day stuff (though I have it trained to play MP3s and to stream radio from abc.net.au)

If one of your courses has students installing, than give them the 64-bit version and (maybe) enhance their problem-solving skills. It's experience they will need, work or not.

Might be worth browsing the fedora-test archives.




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