Kubuntu Amd64

[Ron Morse]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:03 -0500, manchicken wrote:

> What you do is totally your call.  It is perfectly safe and sensible to run 
> amd64 Kubuntu.  Most of the people who tell you differently are tied to 
> non-free software that only appears in 32-bit form, who have thus far not 
> been clever enough to make them work together.  It's really not hard, as most 
> of these instructions exist on wiki.ubuntu.com.
> 
> As for what you do, things DO work--and work well--on amd64.  You will have a 
> little more trouble with software that only comes in 32-bit until you get a 
> working 32-bit environment running (also on the wiki, look for firefox32 on 
> the wiki for a pretty good tutorial), but all-in-all it's pretty easy.
> 
Ok...I don't have any argument with any of that, but my question is:
Unless I have more than  4 Gb of physical RAM, what advantage is there
to running AMD64 Kubuntu over IA32 Kubuntu? 

Ron Morse