[Discuss] Are you using a 64bit distro?

[stephen hawkes]

Thanks Cody.

Good point. I don't think I can even get 4 gigs of ram into that laptop.. and if I could, even with the low ram prices, it would cost me nearly as much as the computer itself (ok a quick look at ncix shows $299 for a dual channel kit of 4GB.. which is still a huge chunk of the value of the computer). And more importantly 4GB ram would give me no more benefit than 1gb of ram for my usage.


----- Original Message -----
From: Cody Swanson <mailinglists at sysop.ca>
Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:42 am
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Are you using a 64bit distro?
To: discuss at vlug.org

> We run a lot of 64 bit Suse and Redhat opteron servers here at 
> work. My 
> main issues have revolved around compiling 64 bit apps 
> (dependency hell) 
> and some drivers for fiber channel HBAs and raid controllers. On 
> a 
> standard laptop workstation you may not have as many issues, 
> especially 
> with newer distros. Then again, I unless you're going to be 
> running apps 
> that need the extra memory footprint 64bit gives you I can't 
> think of a 
> viable reason to go that route right now on a laptop.
> 
> stephen hawkes wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'll be upgrading at the end of the month to a new laptop. 
> Along with deciding how I'll migrate (at this point it looks 
> like I'll just be tar'ing my home folder, as a full new install 
> would be best), I have to decide on 64 bit VS 32 bit.
> >
> > My distro of choice for laptops is Ubuntu, so I'll be going 
> with the newest release of that. It looks like codecs and such 
> are not a huge problem (like they were when I first had a 64 bit 
> desktop), but I'm not sure if I want to bother with the hassles 
> of setting up and running 32 bit applications for which there 
> are no 64 bit counterparts. 32 bit would be painless, I don't 
> need the extra addressable mem space and I doubt I would notice 
> any performance benefits in daily usage, however if running a 64 
> bit distro has been mainly painless for some of you, then I see 
> no good reason to not go with it.
> >
> > What do you guys/gals think and what are you running?
> >
> > Also can anyone recommend a good source for a cheap mini-pci 
> wireless card that has native drivers (intel, atmel or what have 
> you). I expect I will want to toss the broadcom POS in the Dell 
> out the window. I'm running a broadcom card on my current laptop 
> with the native driver (not ndis wrapper), but it looks like the 
> current broadcom abomination will not work with the OS driver. I 
> would really like to avoid the ndis wrapper as it has bit me in 
> the behind before (kernel locks, poor reliability etc).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen
> >
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