linux64on duocore? necessary?

[Tony Baechler]

This is a matter of opinion, but I noticed vastly better performance 
with 64-bit Linux.  It is not necessary.  The x86-64 arch will fall back 
to 32-bit automatically and you'll never notice the difference.  However 
if your processor supports 64-bit, I highly recommend it.  You won't 
notice a huge improvement with boot times or running programs, but where 
you'll notice is when there's a large load on the processor.  A good 
example is copying one drive to another.  In Windows and Linux, it slows 
the system to a crawl and makes it almost useless.  With 64-bit, you can 
tell the system is slower than usual but it can still be used and you 
can still get work done.  I'm very glad that I switched.  I still have a 
server running 32-bit with a 3 GHZ processor and it is definitely slower 
for some tasks, like fetching large amounts of email and system 
backups.  Yes, Speakup works either way.

David Sexton wrote:
> Do I need to install a 64bit version of linux on my duocore computer? 
> If so, will speakup work?