64 bit or 32 bit ubuntu

[bill biggs]

What it is I have installed crossover and I installed it and it not
showing up in the applications like it dose in 32bit and I installed
netbeans 6.1 and I do not think it is working rignt I made a css file in
it I link it but it not working how much ram will I lose if I move to 32
bit ?
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 11:52 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> > bill biggs wrote:
> >> I would like to 32 or 64 bit ubuntu I have a dual core 4g or ram dell ?
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > Uh, what?  If I read this right, (and I'm not sure I do), if you have 
> > 4GB or more of RAM, then you should go with the 64-bit.  With less than 
> > 4GB RAM you won't really see a performance benefit going with 64-bit.
> > 
> > However, I go 64-bit regardless, but that's just me.
> 
> What compatibility problems do you run into? I want to run things like 
> Virtualbox, and I know there were hiccups people ran into using 64 bit 
> with certain applications before...didn't know what problems people are 
> currently running into using that.
> 
> Seems like the only reason I ran into to run 64 bit were having more 
> than 4 gig of RAM or using programs with very very very large datasets 
> to manipulate...graphics/video, or databases. *shrug* things change though.
>