Re: PC components

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:19:04PM +1100 Tony Langdon said:
> At 04:42 PM 12/18/2005, you wrote:
> 
> >64-bit doesn't get much in extra speed for most apps. It is good for large
> >data problems such as video or databases, or it can be as simple as making
> >tar files a few gigabytes in size for backing up lots of data (2GB is the
> >limit for 32-bit systems iirc).
> 
> Actually, many filesystems support > 2GB file sizes under 32 bit 
> Linux.  It is documented on the Net, and I have done it myself on 2.4 
> and 2.6 kernel based systems on 32 bit PC hardware

Thanks for the input all of you. I'll probably pick up the bits and
pieces mid-week and have it set up by the weekend. A final question -
between ABIT and ASUS what would you pick?

Sam
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