I tried the OpenSuse 32 bits version, and I noticed that it it saw only 3.5Gb of my 4Gb.
The missing 500Mb, will that be used by the OS or not at all?
Currently I have a 64bits Linux Ubuntu, and that’s running fine, except that some software modules are not available, such as Flash. Flash cannot be used on a 64bits browser. And there are other packages that only has a 32 bits version.
That’s why I consider to switch to a 32 bits Linux version.
Is that a good idea or not?
Flash cannot be used on a 64bits browser.
Not correct.
Works out of the box for me in suse11 _64
Use _64
If you have issues, come back and ask for help
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All OS’s that are 32-bit will see four GB total in their entire world of
RAM, including the cumulative total of RAM, Video RAM, various caches,
etc. Until you go 64-bit you won’t get that last 512 MB from any distro
or OS, though that may not be a big deal. I run 64-bit SLED 10 SP2 and
it has been great so I wouldn’t hold back from the 64-bit version if
possible to do so.
Good luck.
janjoker wrote:
> I tried the OpenSuse 32 bits version, and I noticed that it it saw only
> 3.5Gb of my 4Gb.
> The missing 500Mb, will that be used by the OS or not at all?
>
> Currently I have a 64bits Linux Ubuntu, and that’s running fine, except
> that some software modules are not available, such as Flash. Flash
> cannot be used on a 64bits browser. And there are other packages that
> only has a 32 bits version.
>
> That’s why I consider to switch to a 32 bits Linux version.
>
> Is that a good idea or not?
>
>
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On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 20:26 +0000, caf4926 wrote:
> > Flash cannot be used on a 64bits browser.
> Not correct.
> Works out of the box for me in suse11 _64
Yes and no. It works with a few (very few) issues. If
flash is causing problems, one solution is to merely install
the 32bit version of firefox and move to all 32bit
version of the plugins. Thus you’ll have 64bit with
just a 32bit firefox.
For most people, flash works adequately with the
64bit workaround included in openSUSE under 64bit
firefox… but as I said, if you have something
that is frustrating you, moving to a 32bit version
of firefox is a reasonable answer (for now).
> Use _64
> If you have issues, come back and ask for help
>
>
You might try the pae kernel. That is a 32-bit kernel that can address upto 64GB of memory. There may be other issues there.
The linux PAE kernel does not have the problems that Windows PAE does. AFAIK it works fine. Having said that, I use 64-bit openSUSE with no problems - openSUSE is a hybrid distro, supporting 32-bit libraries with a 64-bit kernel. So I use 32-bit FF with 32-bit Flash. That Flash plugin also works with 64-bit Konqueror.
I recommend the pae-kernel. 4GB RAM will work and you won’t have to struggle with the issues a 64bit-system still has (those issues get fewer with every minute, yet there still are issues). The only limit of pae is that it can address ‘only’ 4GB of RAM per process in total. Per process. That should be enough for most users. 
That PAE kernel sounds like a good idea.
I 'll google around a bit to find some info and how-to’s about it.
Thanks for your replies.
Well, there’s not much to google about. Simply install it via YaST, the pae-kernel is provided by SuSE’s basic repositories. You can even install it next to the default, GRUB will give you an extra-entry for it, so you can compare both. When satisfied, uninstall the default.
Life can be so sweet sometimes.