Re: CentOS 5 64-bits support (desktop environment)

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On 4/11/07, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> What benefits do you see to a 64 OS on the desktop?
>>
>
> You probably won't keep bumping into things that still accidentally have
> a 2 gig file size limit like you do with 32 bit linux (even though it
> hasn't been necessary for years).  And your clock will keep working past
> 2038.
>

Please, let Leonardo say what _he_ thinks important. It's his computer.

As for the 2 Gbyte filesize, I know just one program with the problem.


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Cheers
John

Better performance.

And I want to run other systems inside VMware - including 64-bits guests.

So x86_64 might bring some benefits - or some more headache.
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