On 06/18/2010 02:00 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Monty wig <montywig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Gurus, >> >> Can someone please point me the right direction on the difference between >> 32bit and 64bit OS? > > For almost all situations, I don't see any benefit to staying with > 32-bit on servers. There's apparently a narrow case for 32-bit on the > desktop for some specific applications, but my laptop is 64-bit. Even if you're going to run an app in 32-bit mode, you're still better off with a 64-bit kernel. > The areas where 64-bit apps is not a good idea is on some > applications, in particular Java-based apps. In most cases that's not really true any more, because of compressed OOPs. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
