[Eug-lug] amd64 or x86?

[Ron LeVine]

I am running AMD64 4000+ on my desktop in dual boot XP/Ubuntu. I have had no
problems with either.

Cheers,
Ron

On 8/15/07, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
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