Re: What to do with a RAM-heavy desktop?

["Scott R. Ehrlich" <user=81@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Robert Krawitz wrote: 

>   Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:27:26 -0500 (EST) 
>   From: Scott Ehrlich <[hidden email]> 
> 
>   So I have a 32 GB, dual quad-core processor desktop to configure. 
>   It seems like likely I'd install 32-bit Windows XP on it, with 
>   respect to the user needing Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, and 
>   Photoshop, along with Matlab (which we have Linux versions of) and 
>   Mathematica (which we can get Linux versions of, too). 
> 
>   But with 32-bit Win XP with SP2, we waste 28 GB, as it can only use 4 GB. 
> 
>   The user is equally Unix-capable, and I could easily install 64-bit 
>   CentOS, but how could I enable them to fully take advantage of the 
>   Adobe products on the system natively (i.e w/o using a VM)? 
> 
> With that kind of memory, why not use a virtual machine? 
>