[GRLUG] 64bit Linux

[Collin Kidder]

Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> Anyone have any experiences with 64bit linux lately?  I've been
> running i386 because I didn't want to mess with the the headaches that
> seemed to dog the 64bit releases a few years ago.
>
>   
I've been looking into this as well as I recently got a core2 duo 
machine. However, from what I'm seeing there just isn't that much of a 
reason to go 64 bit. It's faster in some apps but slower in others, it's 
still somewhat problematic, etc. What I've seen is that it seems better 
to instead build a 32bit linux kernel with support for advanced features 
of the newer processors.