32-bit or 64-bit

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 12:39 -0500, Stephen wrote:

> The only way that you need 64bit is if you have more than 2 gigs of ram. 
> Other wise it doesn't make any difference. Except I noticed that some 
> closed source drivers for modems are not available for the 64bit versions.

IA32 can address 4 GB of RAM.  I run 64bit on a T61 with few problems.
I am running the Adobe Beta Flash plugin for 64 bit Linux and it seems
to run fine with few problems.  I am using 64 bit simply because I
wanted to see how it works.  I do nothing that needs more than 32 bit
support.  The Flash Player was going to be a deal killer and I have had
problems with running the Adobe supported 32 bit plugin. The beta 64 bit
plugin seems to be fairly stable.
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