64 OR 32 bit ubuntu

[Mrreality13]

hi gang
-well Ive had it finally with M$ i use ubuntu on a older box (since 7.04 and now am ready to use it on main /gameing rig(only play ro and alien arena any ways)
my question is will i see a advantage using a 64 bit ubuntu over a 32?

and should i try for alpha 2 of 10.04 lts or use 9.04?(i know 9.10 had some issues and i want to use a LTS for security reasons)

specs:
4200+DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2@ 2200 MHz
nVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (Gigabyte GV-NX76G) 256 meg
3 gigs of pc3200
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In a Biostar TForce 6100-939 mb

[Cuchulainn]

hi Abundy,

the performance of some applications is better on a 64bit system than on a 32bit system. Here is a article which compares the performance of a 32 bit Ubuntu 9.10 with a 64 bit one: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...u_32_pae&num=1

In the past 64bit systems had the disadvantage that some closed source applications like adobes flashplugin or teamspeak didnt work on it, but I think almost everything works on a 64bit system now.

[Arafails]

Duuuuude, I've told you soooo many times, The last Ubuntu LTS release was 8.04.

I hear the Lynx alphas are a bit shonky still, so I'd avoid them.

As for 64-bit vs 32-bit, not too many applications get a performance advantage on Linux, but on the other hand nothing suffers a performance penatly either. A lot more custom packages have precompiled i386 than amd64 packages though.

[Mashu]

Originally Posted by Cuchulainn

In the past 64bit systems had the disadvantage that some closed source applications like adobes flashplugin or teamspeak didnt work on it, but I think almost everything works on a 64bit system now.

In exception to ONE retarded application that affords to use patented (thanks to software patents) video codecs which is Skype. You have to install 32bit libraries over your sweet pure 64bit system. Which approximately doubles disk space usage by libraries.

Welcome in 2010, 64bit processors were introduced on eye 10 years ago, the most popular skype bug report is from 2006, where ppl are asking for 64 bit version. First promise was made for 2008, then for 2009. Wait for another promise of Skype team for 2010 or switch to another VoIP software

Originally Posted by Arafails

As for 64-bit vs 32-bit, not too many applications get a performance advantage on Linux, but on the other hand nothing suffers a performance penatly either. A lot more custom packages have precompiled i386 than amd64 packages though.

Not too many, depends on what he is using. I would say lots of application get advantage, especially applications involved in multimedia processing. I dont agree that most custom packages are only i386, I would also say its the opposite, since nowadays most people have and want to use 64bit architecture. It is more common that those custom packages are backported to i386 architecture.