What are the Pros and Cons of Running 64 bit Linux

Christy Burton: Bad Man. Robbie Ferguson: Hey, Bad Man. Christy Burton: What are the pros— Robbie Ferguson: Bad Man. Christy Burton: What are the pros and cons of running an Ubuntu on a 64 bit machine and he says this is a great show. I think he is a very smart person. Robbie Ferguson: He is the pros of running Ubuntu on a 64 bit machine. Christy Burton: On a 64 bit machine. Robbie Ferguson: Its awesome, I have to make assumption that you're actually asking what would be advantage of running this 64 bit Ubuntu on a 64 bit machine. I have to make that assumption because there is really no advantage to running, I mean obviously your processor supports 64 bit is going to be better processor than but that aside. Your question is probably running the 64 bit version of Linux on a 64 bit plat form. So, the advantages there is basically you're going to be able to fully utilize your round on the system if you’ve got like four gigs or more of ram. Linux is interesting with PAE because you can still support higher levels of Ram if you're—or its sizes capacities around. If your processor supports PAE, but and we talked a viewer had posted and email about that a couple weeks ago. You can look up at Wikipedia is a great place to look up PAE and find out a little bit of information about that. But with 64 bit plat forms you don’t need to use that you don’t have to, you can actually access as much Ram as your system can handle. So there is really no problem there 64 bit architecture is technically going to be faster. This days is still a lot of the code is 32 bit on your 64 bit operating system. So you don’t get the full benefits so its been basically converted over to 64 bits that it works but its still a 32 bit program. But if you get into applications that support true made of 64 bit code then you're looking at you know scream and fast process in those applications so. So the advantages are pretty good, the disadvantages really when it comes to Linux this days is that unfortunately flash tends to have the most problems of anything when it comes to 64 bit versions of flash but not Linux fault. That that’s kind of likes the adobe guys. So, so that’s what most people run into if you don’t use flash a lot or if you don’t mind having to thinker with it sometimes. And sometimes it means closing your browser and reopening it and that’s as simple as it is. John Robert mentioning Skype with Webcams I've never personally had a problem with that but I've heard that some people have trouble getting those things to work under, under 64 bit. So usually it’s a compatibility thing, this is what you know, and this is what I would say. So you get the speed benefits of 64 bit, you get the extra round, the ability to use ram natively and truly. But there are sometimes down sides with, with compatibility with certain applications. But that’s said things have progressing substantially, I mean things are—everybody in the chat room has to use in 64 bit can agree with me that in the past let's say three years, its been huge for 64 bit. Just the transition is just been, you know, is really been there. Christy Burton: That’s about to say, does 64 bit really kick in enough a few when you're not running games though. Robbie Ferguson: Yeah, I notice the difference on my desktop system. I've got a quad 6600 which is just kind of like an entry level Quad Core Intel Processor. And I notice the difference in 64 bit in game too. And I don’t do any gaming really. So I don’t think it’s necessarily a gaming things, it’s just like, it’s the way your kernel runs. It’s the way that the software runs on the kernel. But this days I mean were slipping into and we've been and I guess over the past couple of years where were getting in the place where processors as fast as it is, it doesn’t you know what you're running is almost. You know even if it’s slow by the standards of what's fast its still running pretty fast.