To 64 Bit or Not To 64 Bit

[James Mcphee]

I 64-bit for the sole purpose of using it.  My hope is that if enough
people use it, the stingy close-source folk will be forced to fix their
junks.

That and I needs me mah extra 32 bits!  j/k

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> On 06/07/2012 01:29 PM, Jim March wrote:
>
>> if you install 32bit Ubunu Precise (or likely it's
>> derivatives like Mint 12) it will auto-detect 4gig and install a PAE
>> 32bit kernel.
>>
>
> <FWIW>
>
> Ubuntu 12.4 (aka Precise) doesn't appear to me to do any auto-detecting. I
> think that Ubuntu 12.4 installs PAE regardless of the amount of RAM. That's
> what it did when I upgraded one host from 11.4 (Natty) w/ 2G. Only PAE
> kernels in my /boot now, where 11.4 had both PAE and non-PAE kernels.
>
> Oddly though, my Mythbuntu 12.4 (upgraded from 11.10) backend w/ 512M ram
> has only the non-PAE kernels. Looks as though at least one downstream
> distro isn't consistent in this regard.
>
> </FWIW>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
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