[Tfug] 32bit os on 64 bit system

[Zack Williams]

> Absolutely not. I have tried them both and I find *absolutely* no advantage
> to moving to 64 bit and numerous disadvantages. The only consideration would
> be if your computer has more than 4GB or more memory. If you want to access
> all of it you will need to install either the "server" kernel or the new
> "pae" kernel. I am running the "pae" kernel on my T61 and it sees all of my
> memory and works well.

FYI, there are some security improvements of the amd64 architecture -
it has a noexecute bit, which can help prevent certain buffer overflow
attacks, and various other design improvements.

Personally, I'd do a reinstall of whatever distro you're running than
try to recompile just a kernel.

- Zack