On 5/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">James L. Clarke</b> <<a href="mailto:jamesc@global.net.au">jamesc@global.net.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Here are the ones I'm currently using:-<br><br>Ubuntu 6.10 i386 on a Pentium 4<br>Ubuntu 5.10 Server i386 on a Pentium 1/166(yes I'm still using a very old<br>machine for my experimental server)<br><br>Although in the past I've used Mandriva, Redhat, Debian and Slack.
<br><br>Regards,<br><br>James Clarke<br><br><a href="http://www.pbase.com/jameslclarke">http://www.pbase.com/jameslclarke</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>To summarise a point of choice: The main differences between x86 Linux and x86-64 Linux are in applications. You'll get a wider range of apps on x86 (that just install and work more by default). With x86-64 it (can) be a little more work because some apps just don't realise that x86-64 is x86 compatible, so you can have the best of both worlds there. However the pay offs in x86-64 are in performance (not huge though).
<br><br>So what do you want: an easier time, or a little more boost? I don't mind getting my hands dirty personally, so I run x86-64 Linux.<br><br>Tomasz<br>