[ALUG] 32/64-bit? Intel T2390

[Chris G]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 03:07:01PM +0000, mick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:51:27 -0000 (GMT)
> (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> allegedly wrote:
> 
> > Hi Folks,
> > Once upon a time I didn't need to ask this kind of question ...
> > 
> > I'm about to install Linux (probably Debian) on a laptop which
> > has an Intel Core Duo T2390 CPU.
> > 
> > So I'm wondering whether it I should use i386 or ia64.
> 
> Ted
> 
> The processor will happily take a 64 bit installation - and that is the
> one I'd recommend, particularly if you want access to memory > 4Gig.
> 
> But there are one or two applications (adobe flash comes to mind)
> which don't have native 64 bit capabilities (though I think they may
> have addressed this in Flash 10...). Others on the list may have
> experience of the odd application which has problems.
> 
I run xubuntu 8.10 64-bit on an Intel Core bla bla processor.  There
are *very* few issues with 64-bit now.  I used to run a 32-bit version
of Firefox because of issues with plugins but now I've moved to a
64-bit Firefox and (at least in Ubuntu) everything seems to play nicely.
I had a minor issue with Java because I needed the 'proper' Sun Java
and so I had to install that manually to get the 64-bit plugin but I
think that's the only 64-bit issue I've had.  The default Java
installation works fine in 64-bit, I just needed something it didn't
provide. 

-- 
Chris Green