To 64 Bit or Not To 64 Bit

[Stephen]

At home with 16gb of ram I have to use 64bit...
On Jun 7, 2012 5:58 PM, "James Mcphee" <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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