Thanks David I appreciate your insight From: talk [mailto:talk-bounces@gtalug.org] On Behalf Of David Thornton Sent: January-15-15 9:06 PM To: GTALUG Talk Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Running Hadoop on a 32 bit linux (Fedora 21 or Linuxmint 17) computer It is my experience that most "new tools" Hadoop included are developed primarily for 64 bit platforms. It's possible that some components are offered with 32 bit versions. However we live in a world of very interdependent software components. It takes a bug or two in the 32 bit version that's not getting any dev attention because it's 32 bit to bring your project to a grinding halt. Better to expend energy , time , or money to start at 64 bit and deal with hard problems rather than asinine problems. /opinion On Jan 15, 2015 3:16 PM, "Clive DaSilva" <cdasilva@iprimus.ca> wrote: Hello all I decided to take a shot at Hadoop as a lot of my career adventures deal with manipulating large data streams. While Hadoop usually runs from a cluster of Linux boxes, for self-experimental purposes, some of the distros have included Hadoop or work- alikes( Apache Bigtop for Ubuntu being one example which insists on a 64 bit box) for single node activity, but it’s not clear as to whether you need a 32 or 64 bit computer, as after two days of googling the subject, I find the documentation to be quite vague. Does anyone here have experience with this beast? Any suggestions, links, etc would be appreciated. --------- Clive DaSilva – cdasilva@iprimus.ca --------- GTALUG Talk Mailing List - talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk