32 bit vs 64 bit

[Russell]

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At 01:05 PM 8/21/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>On 8/20/06, John McGregor <mr.mcgregor-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Chris Browne wrote:
>>
>> > There's some benefit to both directions...
>> >
>> > - In the "running in 32 bit mode" direction, there is the merit that
>> > things like Flash players and video codecs and OpenOffice.org and such
>> > that are primarily or fundamentally 32 bit code will run with as few
>> > layers of complications as possible.
>> >
>> > - Of course, there will be applications that can benefit from being
>> > aware of extra registers and of larger "bit grabs".
>> >
>> > I don't see indication of there being **enormous** performance
>> > differences for common "desktop and web browsing and writing some
>> > documents" purposes...
>> >
>> Thanks Chris, that really helps. The reason that I aked the question in
>> the first place is that the distro I plan to use is MEPIS -- which
>> does't have a 64 bit version, at least on the basis of the mirrors that
>> I checked. I am taking courses through the Chang School at Ryerson.
>> Ryerson seems to be pretty Windows centric in terms of how written work
>> can be submitted, so I need  Open Office ( to be able to save as a .doc)
>> to work with a minimum of fuss and bother. As well, the laptop has a
>> Broadcom 43xx wireless nic, so I am likely going to have to use
>> ndiswrapper in order to get it working. I am sure that there are people
>> on this list  for whom solving these problems on a 64 bit machine would
>> be a 'no brainer', but I am not in that league yet. :lol:
>>
>
>Running the 32bit version of OpenOffice on a 64bit Distro is not a
>problem. It requires some 32bit libraries but most distros handle that
>all for you.
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