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The 64-bit bandwagon was launched by a 64-bit version of Windows XP about 3 (or was it 4 years ago). This was followed up by releases of 64-bit Windows Vista and finally of Windows 7 64-bit. But you may well ask why all the hoopla about 64-bit versus normal (aka 32-bit) Windows. Putting it simply it’s all about system resource utilization. The 32-bit operating systems (OS) cannot address more than just over 3 GB of installed RAM. And RAM as we know usually arrives in 2 GB sticks. So here you were with 2 sticks (4 GB in all) of which a fourth was useless.

Linux (derived as it is from Unix) doesn’t have this problem. It’s been 64-bit compatible from the get-go. And if your processor is only 32-bit its not a problem, Linux will install in 32-bit mode. But if you have a 64-bit processor, then Linux runs in that mode as well. And there are now special AMD64 builds (or Spins) for all the major Linux distributions (aka distros) like Fedora, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux that take advantage of the different (from Intel) instruction set to offer better resource utilization. The only downside is that these AMD64-specific spins can’t be installed on Intel x86-64 processors.

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