[TriLUG] Debian 7 - 32 or 64

[Nikolas Everett]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:55 AM, John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can load Debian 32 on a 64 bit CPU, it works fine.
>
> You didn't say how much memory your Thinkpad has. A 32 bit OS will only see
> approx 3.2 Gig of memory, no matter how much memory your box has (well, not
> if you have 2 Gig).
>

They can totally use more than 3.2G of memory with PAE.  Each process only
can access around that though.

Still, at this point I think 64 bit is less complicated.

Nik