[CentOS] CentOS 5 64-bits support (desktop environment)

[Leonardo Pinheiro]

On 4/11/07, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> 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.
>
>
> --
>
> 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.