Re: should I go for 64bit version of Fedora 11 ?

[Paul <jpb@xxxxxxxx>]

James Wilkinson wrote:

I wrote:
  

I’d also advise the Original Poster to consider whether he might ever
upgrade this laptop.
    

Jatin K wrote:
  

Not in near future .... as I got it just before 4 days
    

But are you prepared to say “never”? Upgrades from 32 bit to 64 bit
aren’t supported, and are considerably harder than a normal upgrade.

If you go 32 bit now, you’ll have to do a reinstall to go 64 bit.

James.

  

That depends on a number of factors, such as whether his laptop can even handle more than 4GB of RAM, which most (with notable exceptions) pre-i5 laptops cannot do. If he were wanting to use F11 on an 8GB XPS workstation with CAD class graphics running Lightwave then I would say 64-bit hands down. If he were wanting to install on a tower that had more upgrade potential then there would be a case for it. As it stands there's not a whole lot of benefit to running 64-bit on a laptop, and there really won't be until 64-bit code becomes the standard and 32-bit code starts to lag behind in updates, or not to be produced at all for many packages, by which time I expect F14 or higher to be out.

Cheers,

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Paul

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