William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
Alex White wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 19:40 -0500, Ryan Lum wrote:
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My question is: is the hardware support for
x86_64 as good as i386. I just installed i386 4.1 without a hang or any problems.
Personally, if I was going to run a server, I would use the x86_64 distro ... but if I was going to run a workstation, I would use the i386 distro. To be perfectly honest, if i386 is stable for you and x86_64 is not, I would recommend you use the i386 distro ... in my experience, the difference between the two is not really that noticeable when using the system.
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I'm just looking for some "why" type stuff if anyone would like to share their experience and or decision making scenarios with me. This can be done off list or on maybe it would benefit some others?
Sincerely,
Alex White
One reason for going 64-bit is larger address space for applications. If you are not doing high-resolution Finite-Element analysis or C.F.D. or astro-physics, the i386 would probably be OK. Of course, there is then the question of 'Why did you buy an Opteron/Athlon64, only to run a 32-bit OS ?' :-)
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Thanks for the response. I'm certainly not doing any of that. I did however come into the athlon64 by chance and decided to run with it. It's my desktop PC and runs CentOS 4.1 (fully updated of course) and my router/web/ftp/mail server runs i386 CentOS 4.1.
Not noticing anything unstable, other than gftp; however, I was just curious about the implications of having x86_64 arch and what not. Thanks again.
Alex White