[geeks] Windows XP 64bit Licensing?
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 23:24:47 CDT 2007
Michael Dombrowski wrote:
>> My point was he needs to do a lot more research
>> before investing in any
>> operating system, and I was making the point of
>> illustrating all the
>> potential issues (there are many) to running any
>> 64-bit OS on an x86
>> architecture. I wasn't arguing so much as
>> educating. If I sounded like I
>> was arguing, it's probably because I'm rather sick
>> of having to deal with
>> all this mess professionally and it makes me
>> sad/frustrated to write about
>> it.
>>
>> - Nate
>>
>
> Just wanted to clarify this point... I was a bit
> unclear in my original email, should have said that I
> cannot use Linux because of the graphics issues and
> cannot use Windows XP (32bit) because of the 1gb hole
> due to memory mapping of physical devices... Looks
> like my choices are either live with 3gb ram and XP
> 32bit or Kubuntu and only two monitors... grrr.
Why can't you use x64-edition again?
Peace... Sridhar
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