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@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.