On 4/11/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > John Summerfield wrote: > > Leonardo Pinheiro wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Does CentOS 5 use a better approach to 64-bits and 32-bits packages > >> existing on the same machine? > >> > > > > 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. How about just plain faster performance when you have a 64-bit CPU? mhr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070411/75b84f99/attachment-0004.html>