On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:40 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Craig White > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 14:49 -0700, jordi laforge wrote: > > > XP has a 4gig memory limit. Does anyone know what it is for Linux? > > 1 - use a 64 bit OS (I believe that there is a Windows XP 64 bit version > > available) and there are definitely 64 bit versions of Win2K3 (server) > > and of course Linux > > ...and the XP64 support is apparently not great for some^W a bunch of > things. x86_64 Linux is much better in this regard, but there are still > a few things that are harder than they should be, like getting Java > working in Firefox. One thing (epsxe) doesn't work *at all* on x86_64 > Linux. ---- I have no experience with 64 bit Windows of any flavor so I can't add much other than from what I have read, it is still a less than optimal experience. 64 bit Linux has been rather good (Fedora 7/Fedora 8) but yes, I don't believe that you can get Java applet to run inside a 64 bit version of Firefox. If that is needed, you can install the 32 bit versions of Firefox and say Sun's JRE/JDK. Oddly enough, the 32 bit Flash plugin works with nspluginviewer. I have had some niggling little issues on Fedora 7/8 with the x86_64 but they are small things like not being able to install Mozilla.org's Lightning extension into 64 bit version of Thunderbird...but these are small details. ---- > > I believe that there are some PAE kernel extensions > > With PAE, you can have 64G total, but each process will be able to use a > max of about 3.5G. PAE is also slower than going with a flat address > space. Note that YMMV, and HTH, ---- It is however, an option. Myself, I would opt for 64 bit version if the processor is capable. Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss