On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:51:27 -0000 (GMT) (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@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.
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