By: bzr status schwuk | schwuk.com
13 Sep 2008 9:43pm GMT [...] November I pondered moving to 64-bit. Last week after a few stability and performance problems (entirely [...]
By: Christer Edwards
25 Nov 2007 9:13pm GMT I've had this discussion over and over again recently with many of my co-workers. We're in an all Linux shop and a lot of them seem to be running 64bit. I finally caved to their pressure and have installed 64bit. My thoughts and why... 1) I really don't see any immediate benefit in 64bit. The machine is not blazingly fast and I don't see a big performance increase, but everything does work--I'd say about the same. 2) I finally have switched on principle. 64bit will never improve if none...
By: Quentin Hartman
25 Nov 2007 9:13pm GMT My rule of thumb is to go 32-bit unless you have a pressing reason to go 64. Life is just generally easier on 32-bit, though 64 has gotten good enough that it's livable for most folks. It just takes a little more effort is all. Just to provide a random anecdotal datapoint, all my "desktop" systems are 32-bit, and all the servers I take care of are 64.
By: flamepanther
25 Nov 2007 9:13pm GMT Older versions of Ubuntu had a few minor snags (Flash) when trying to go 64-bit. Gutsy has been perfect. Even Flash installed from the repos and worked automatically for me, with no need to configure a wrapper for it.
By: bma
25 Nov 2007 9:13pm GMT I've found (with Debian, at least) that there's no reason to use 32-bit unless you really need something like Flash.