Processors: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
Speed: 3000.00 Mhz
Cores: 2
Total Memory: 1.7 GiB
Free Memory: 380.7 MiB (+674.4 MiB Caches)
Free Swap: 2.0 GiB
OS: Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop i686
System: openSUSE 12.1 (i586)
KDE: 4.7.2 (4.7.2) “release 5”
Display Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Model: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
2D driver: radeon
3D driver: unknown Gallium (7.11)
Please advise me about which upgrades I might do in order to use OpenSUSE with 64-bit support. I read from OpenSUSE download page helper that 3 GiB RAM is needed for good operation. What are your thoughts?
Some info about my computer usage: I work with Python 2.7, check e-mails with thunderbird, browse the net with Opera and Firefox, check the forums, make regular backups with tar to an external HDD, use LibreOffice Writer and Calc, etc. No time for games, does not need a powerful hardware needed for games.
On 01/17/2012 11:16 AM, bakkurt wrote:
> I work with Python 2.7, check
> e-mails with thunderbird, browse the net with Opera and Firefox, check
> the forums, make regular backups with tar to an external HDD, use
> LibreOffice Writer and Calc, etc.
while your hardware would certainly support it, i can’t imagine you will
benefit by changing from 32 to 64 bit…
in fact, you might see some slow downs here and there…and for sure you
will still be running 32 bit code in places (because not everything is
written in 64 yet)…
i’ve had a 64 bit capable machine since 2003/4 and ran 64 (SUSE 9.x) for
about a year or so, and then next time i moved to a newer SUSE i just
installed the 32 and several little problems went away–there are less
problems now but still if you are not going to do massive computational
required stuff (run a digital simulation of a nuclear explosion; crack
the human genome; render your home made version of Toy Story;
keep/search/serve a million line database; or . . .) then for the kinda
stuff you (and i) do…you might just skip the move…
if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
now: i will say i don’t know how demanding your “work with Python 2.7”
is, so . . .
Thank you for your reply. I liked your quote about “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” and am forgetting about switching to 64-bit for now. I am currently writing very simple codes on Python, so the demand is not much. This tells me that it is not a good idea to think about 64-bit since my work is not challenging enough for 32-bit.
On 2012-01-17 13:16, bakkurt wrote:
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> Thank you for your reply. I liked your quote about “if it ain’t broke
> don’t fix it” and am forgetting about switching to 64-bit for now. I am
> currently writing very simple codes on Python, so the demand is not
> much. This tells me that it is not a good idea to think about 64-bit
> since my work is not challenging enough for 32-bit.
Think not of 64 not as having a faster car, but a bigger one of the same
speed. If you have to carry 9 passengers, the smaller car needs two trips,
so you gain with the bigger car, that’s the difference. If you only need to
move 4 passengers, you are wasting power.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
i agree with robin_listas, but i want to say that if you have use your system at home than i suggest that you use 32-bit window but if you want to use at you office for huge purpose then 64-bit best for your system. Now its your choice which version you use for your system!
On 2012-04-24 07:36, arnoldanderio12 wrote:
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> i agree with robin_listas, but i want to say that if you have use your
> system at home than i suggest that you use 32-bit window but if you want
> to use at you office for huge purpose then 64-bit best for your system.
> Now its your choice which version you use for your system!
Please consider that the post you are replying to is months old, the OP is
probably not interested.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)