Linux on an AMD64 box...

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Aug 15 13:18:29 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:08:04AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Have you considered simply pretending that it's a 32-bit machine, and
> running in 32-bit mode?  Right now, there's no "64-bit-only killer-app".
> The AMD64 is *NOT* an Itanium with crummy 32-bit emulation.  You don't
> really lose anything by running in 32-bit mode.  It solves the hassle of
> dealing with 32-bit-only stuff like Flash, codecs, Realplayer, etc, etc,
> because you are really running in 32-bit mode.

The AMD does run faster in 64bit mode in general.  Not a lot, but not
nothing.  This isn't true of some intel's when running in 64bit mode
where some of them get slower instead.

For convinience however, running 32bit mode is a lot simpler until
someone gets everything working. :)

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