[Eug-lug] amd64 or x86?

[Bill Barry]

On 8/15/07, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> A question for those of you who have 64-bit capable processors: Do you
> run an "amd64" or "x86" distro?
>
> I run x86 on my desktop, and have no problems.  I run amd64 on my
> laptop.  It has hardware incompatibilties galore (mostly from the
> video chip, ATI FireGL 5250).  I've got an alternate x86 root on a USB
> drive, and it still has most of the compatibility issues.  The biggest
> difference is that Adobe's flash plugin works on x86.
>
> So what are the rest of you running, and why?
>

x86. I only have 2GB ram and  it seems that the main advantage of
amd64 would be the ability to make use of a larger address space >
4GB. However, this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit article does
mention a few other advantages and disadvantages.