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On 02/05/2013 09:32 AM, Charles Z Henry wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:02 PM, david  > wrote:

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>     On 02/04/2013 11:29 PM, James Stone wrote:

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>         Is there any advantage in using a 64 bit distro for audio? Do the

>         advantages outweigh the difficulties?

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>         I'm expecting a new computer to be delivered today and am trying to

>         decide what to install...

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>     What difficulties? I run both 32- and 64-bit Linuxes, and have no

>     difficulties with either one.

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>     I can't imagine why anyone would run a 32-bit Linux on a modern

>     processor. Virtually every processor made today is 64-bit. Even the

>     little old dual-core ARM processor in my wife's netbook is 64-bit!

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>     64-bit gives programs access to more on-chip registers, and removes

>     the need for the silly physical address extension (PAE) stuff.

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> It surprises me that none of you seem to remember ~2007.  The question

> of whether to use 32-bit linux on a 64-bit processor is just a bit of

> superstition left over from the days when 64-bit linux had limited

> compatibility.

I agree with that.
> The solution to most desktop users back then was: just run a 32-bit PAE

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> version of linux.  Yeah, really that was just about 6 years ago :)

I didn't acquire hardware that supports PAE until about 2 years ago.

That processor is a 64-bit quad core AMD Phenom II with 12GB of RAM.
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