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

Thu Apr 12 00:00:11 UTC 2007
Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich at gmail.com>

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
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