painterh wrote:Hi all:
I just wanted to put in my 2 cents worth. I am running 1.7 and I have to say it's with out a doubt the best distro, (I heard it is being considered a distro now), that I have ever tried. I too use it about 95% of time, except when I have to boot back into Windows XP to do school work for college. I have winxp I can use via Virtual box, but can't use it for school work because it doesn't allow me to use the 3d capabilities of my video card, which is required for some of the applets I need to run. When I finish my school work and reboot back into Ultimate, it's like coming home. I do have one question though. I am running 1.7 32bit and was wondering if there is much difference between 32 and 64 bit OSs? I have an AMD opteron 170 and was considering the 1.8 64bit upgrade when it's ready. I realize it will probably be a fresh install to go from 32bit to 64bit. Does the 64bit offer any performance improvements, or would I be better off just doing the upgrade to 1.8 32bit when it's ready? Again thanks for all the great work Thee Mann.
Thanks, I have been running what will be Ultimate Edition 1.8 x64 for a couple weeks, have not even tried 32 bit, and will never go back to 32 bit again (except to build it for users incapable of running 64 bit). I have ran both the 32 bit and 64 bit of Ultimate Edition 1.7 and x64 is way faster especially when you "attempt" to put it under a load. I used to hate 64 bit because of nonavailability of software, this has changed (the repo for Ultimate Edition 1.7 x64 & Ultimate Edition 1.8 x64 is larger then the 32 bit repo to try and put things in perspective. Initially I had nothing but problems with harty, this also has changed and mostly within this week stability is setting in quite nicely. The way 1.8 x64 runs I have not even considered going back into 1.7x64 (was my primary OS). I highly suggest a 64 bit OS using the chip you have, be it 1.7 or wait on 1.8, you will never look back. I just finished writing the page that will be injected into the OS it will be "
home page" when you open the browser. While it does not explain the gains of using 64 bit this
does. Raw speed. Boot speed is not the only gain... Responsiveness, I can drop the hammer on it, for example I am running 16 programs (pretty low to me, I am really hard on an O/S) if I want to open 10 firefoxes they will open as fast as I can click the mouse, this did not happen when I ran 32 bit.
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