Introduction & Question: 32 vs. 64 Bit - what to use ?

[Thomas Kaiser]

Bernard Peek wrote:
> In message <b212bb920603221059v6543910cy at mail.gmail.com>, Walter 
> Sparbier <walter.sparbier at googlemail.com> writes
> 
>> I will use this pc mainly for mail, web, listening to mp3's but will
>> as well install
>> apache2 & MySql + Mediawiki used as my knowledge base.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your support.
> 
> 
> I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I would install the 
> 32-bit version. Like Windows there are still some problems with 64-bit 
> drivers for some hardware. It's unlikely that you will need the last 
> drop of performance out of your machine so 64-bit gets you potential 
> problems without any major benefits.
> 
Stupied question, why buying 64bit HW and not using it?

If drivers not working, help fixing/testing :-)

Thomas




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