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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter Granny Sue Start date Oct 19, Granny Sue Well-Known Member. Joined Oct 18, Messages Reaction score Credits Hi, I'm new here, but have decided Linux is the OS for me.
I recently purchased a commercially marketed USB stick with many distros of Linux all ready to use on my computer. The problem is that this USB stick is for bit computers and what I need is bit. Yesterday I attempted to download the Linux mint software to put on these computers.
However I used a USB stick that was only two gigs and of course that was insanity because I only got partial downloads. Obviously, I am very new to all of this. I follow the step-by-step instructions and was able to get it up and running with no problems.
However, I think that was beginners luck. The first thing I want to do is get Ubuntu or Mint installed onto these computers then, I will deal with each one separately. Which linux version to install: i or x64? Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 6 months ago. Active 12 years, 5 months ago.
Viewed 7k times. Improve this question. What hardware? Or are you asking a more general question and will purchase hardware depending on the answer? Most virtualization environments don't virtualize the CPU itself, as that would hurt performance too much. But this is probably going into too much details, the question is general.
It might be a significant variable. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. For a server just use the 64bit operating system Back in there were problems getting device drivers. You're talking about a Virtual Server so that certainly won't apply to you. Improve this answer.
Gareth Gareth 8, 13 13 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. The links are all good, but I'm having trouble understanding the point of the quote. It seems to be saying that you can install a bit OS, and bit apps on top of it, on bit hardware. Those all have the nifty and remarkable and remarkably fiendish misfeature of a bit UEFI, thus requiring a bit bootloader bootia Why does the unproductive life of a Gamer even get a say in anything?
If you cannot afford a bit PC, your probably spending to much time gaming, instead of making a living. Work some OT and get a new rig and get with the times. Read the article again. And really do it. But canonical went with a hamfisted approach and got rightfully burned for it. The heck are you talking about? Crysis anyone? The one with edgy design aka futurist but for someone with no design skill and full of ridiculous light effect, But of course, the last touch: something with Dragon or Falcon written on it.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease. People with superfluous needs have been driving tech for years. I build my systems using LFS as a distro. A Pentium-III system is in daily use and will continue to be. Also, as far as virtualization — virtualization has always had serious issues with video acceleration.
Especially on desktop GPUs. Having said that, I can bitch about shit software all day long. Seems nobody almost knows how to fucking build a web page or a program these days. They prioritize flashy gui and graphics over actual functionality, usability, and ubiquity. I am frustrated with almost every site I go to these days. I just use ublock origin and a host of other programs to fuck all of that garbage in the asshole. The entire idea of a computer is that it adds value to your life, is easy to use, yet powerful as a tool when you need it to be, and flexible enough to do what you need it to do with minimal input.
Software and web designers these days ignore all of those rules. This article outlines a great example of all of this. This is partly true but a lot of the blame belongs to the customer the guy that pays for the site to be built and the managers that pander to the customers while constantly wanting to leave their finger prints on the end product.
Yes there are plenty of web programmers that have NO clue about programming but if you really want someone to blame look higher up. When was the last 32bit Intel desktop chip sold? I just checked out my old Intel E from but that was 64bit so sometime before then? Thus you only need to learn once how to open and save files, how to print, how to move, copy, cut, paste etc.
But what have we gotten from all that? Of course some of the biggest violators of the GUI rules are the companies that make the operating systems. Apple shredded, burned, then peed on the ashes of their own user interface guidelines starting with the release of QuickTime 4. Remember Firefox 4. No help for laptop users because Firefox ignored the scroll zones on their trackpads, and it was that way for quite a while.
WHY did the Firefox people want to take on the extra work of doing that instead of simply interacting with the user input like all other software? I still use some older software because it take less space, provide more features, interface is clear and is not so resources hungry. The actual compiler tools are of course all bit and fall over dead compiling hello world if you give them less than 4 GB well, not quite that bad, but close , but the glue scripts invoking all the right stages in the right sequence and calling out to the tcl hooks for timing constraints and whatnot still rely on a hacky bit infrastructure.
Maybe one day there will be an open source toolchain for Intel or Xilinx parts. There are plenty of examples of software that ONLY comes in bit binaries and thus requires bit libraries. Kill of bit library support and you kill off their ability to do their business. Right now, on my home Linux Mint installation, if I try to uninstall all bit libraries, a bunch of software that I use gets uninstalled as well.
And very few of them are games. Sure, on Windows that kind of stuff happens. But is there an example of this actually happening on Linux? How many businesses out there are seriously relying on a closed source outdated Linux binary?
Quartus 2 comes to mind, or older licenses of Eagle. Still valid but no 64 Bit compatible binary in sight and never will be. Not necessarily a bad thing. Scientific software is another example. Nearly all the scientific software binaries I use on a regular basis are 32 bit.
Upgrading is a highly non-trivial problem. Back in , when we were doing graph analysis in university, we quickly hit the address space limit of 32 bit processors with out data set we made heavy use of mmap and resorted to 64 bit machines.
Not to mention that science should be about repeatability and the ability to replicate. If you someday want to expand the work or find issues, using the exact same method to reproduce your results is important- so when you want to change things, you can reduce the number of variables. Also, if upgrading, having the old version and the new version of the analysis software around is important- do you get the same results from the same dataset? It also would have broken every scanner more than 3 years old that uses binary drivers.
So many of those are 32bit. Scanners have a life much longer than that. Your point about bit scanner and other hardware drivers is quite valid but sadly seems to have been largely overlooked. The Linux drivers which Brother supplies are bit. They took away XP Mode from win7. Run a few scans and take another 10 seconds to save the session. This is actually faster than my old XP box which I took the license from. Mustek was one of the outliers, providing support on Windows for their parallel port scanners when other companies like UMAX claimed that was impossible.
Some outfit in Australia figured out a hack to stop that. Turned out that most of the SCSI scanners UMAX had declared to be no longer supported used files that were in the then current driver package, unchanged from the previous packages. I sent the people who did that fix my how-to on editing the setup files.
Then Adobe released a new version of Photoshop that mysteriously lost the ability to access some of those old scanners through TWAIN, so a separate scanner program had to be used.
It always seemed weird to me that I need multilib to run a bit application in Wine. The difference between and that matters here is that on the you are guaranteed to have an FPU in the system while a might not have one. As you can see from the linked commit, cmpxchg and bswap were emulated on class CPUs. IIRC i also has some bugs and other system-level funkiness that require workarounds or more complicated code than later generations.
You have hardware to run this on? Hi fonz, I checked the latest release and yes, LTspice now seems to be available as 64 bit version. Oh and Tom? There is a big colony of penguins all wearing fishing vests looking for you, with nifty hats as well. But no tribbles, those are all with two others….. I have a few machines that have IO busses that I need that are getting obsoleted in modern hardware. And that obsolete hardware is bit. I do that on a more powerful server. Browse All Android Articles Browse All Smart Home Articles Customize the Taskbar in Windows Browse All Microsoft Office Articles What Is svchost.
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