On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 10:49 -0400, Nat Gross wrote: >> Planning to install Fedora 15 on a new partition dual boot win 7. >> Hardware AMD 1090 (6 core) with 8 gig ram. >> Doing Java programming and plan to use KVM machines with Fedora as the host os. >> Of course regular stuff on the web including videos, etc. >> >> So, the question is. Is it still advisable to go 32 bit due to >> stability (say Flash), or can I gain performance and have 99% >> stability with 64 bit F 15? > > I've been running 64-bit since F13 with essentially no stability > problems, including with Flash (i.e. very occasionally Flash crashes, > just as it does on a 32-bit system). I can't think of a valid reason for > using a 32-bit system on a machine as capable as yours. > (Saw your post after my second post.) Your feedback is great! Hope the same holds true for Java. Regardless, the 64 bit os is the one to get. Thank you all. -- 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