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Good advice: never give anybody 64 bit linux

Good advice: never give anybody 64 bit linux

Posted Apr 15, 2008 6:21 UTC (Tue) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)
In reply to: Good advice: never give anybody 64 bit linux by dank
Parent article: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

I have to say, I disagree. My 64-bit Mandriva 2008.0 system runs really well. Also, with
32-bit, I couldn't use the 8GB of RAM that it contains! 

(Actually, the main reason for going 64-bit is to allow firefox to address 
> 2 GB of swap; now fx can leak up to 16 GB of memory before it crashes...)


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