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Re: [LUG] Intel i5. Debian 32 or 64 bit?

 

On 05/10/11 13:21, Adrian Midgley wrote:
New machine here, got an Ubuntu install on it which is quite nice but
a bit disorienting.

8GBytes of RAM.

Is Debian 64 the way to go, whch I gather means the AMD64 download, or
should I stick to 32 bit (with the bigmem stuff)?


As far as I know these days the 64-Bit support is pretty much as good as the 32-Bit support, so I'd say probably 64-Bit :-)

Rob

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