On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:27:34AM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: > Having run i386 since I began using Linux in 1998 and recently switched > over to x86_64 at the end of 2012 / the middle of 2013, I used to say that > Linux was a tank, that "you can do back-flips in Linux; you could drop a > bomb on it and it would keep running". i386 will not crash - it is > extremely unlikely event. The likelihood of an i386 machine crashing is > maybe 0.25 percent, in my unscientific opinion. I think any stability/instability difference is mostly attributable to something other than 32 vs. 64-bit. There may be some of it, but I don't think it's the major factor. In fact, as 64-bit has rapidly become more dominant, it's likely that it recieves more testing. > Since my switch-over I can't really say that I've gained anything. I don't > think that I can put the demands on the machine as I used to. The reason I > switched is to contribute more to this group. This I would lose if I went > back to i386. Other than that, I can't say that there is anything to lose. Some amout of greater performance, since the x86_64 architecture has improvements beyond just more bits. -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
