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Re: [LUG] General consensus: AMD64 or I386 install of Debian Testing?

 

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:41:54 +0000
> Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Grant,
>
>> So, I ask you, fellow LUGgers: is it worth installing AMD64 Debian on
>> an AMD64 machine, or should I stick with i386 Debian?
>
> I use 64 Debian testing without issues on a dual core AMD desktop
> machine.  There's very little to worry about.  Nearly everything is
> available in 64bit versions, with the exception of the Adobe acroread
> plugin for web browsers.  With ndiswrapper though, even that works
> nicely.  Not an issue if you don't care to use the plugin.
>
> You would of course, be well advised to do a fresh install, rather than
> try and cross-grade from Ubuntu.  However, since you talked of d/l'ing
> the net install disk, I suspect that's what you plan anyway.

Thanks Brad.  I am indeed thinking of a clean install of Debian - only
my old /home remaining (since it's on a separate partition anyway).
The upgrade seems to be progressing OK now - it has settled down a bit
- but for some reason the system has stopped taking keyboard input.  I
tell you, this is the first time I've had to use an on-screen keyboard
to answer apt's questions during an upgrade!  Crazy!

The more I think about it, the more I think I will just go for Debian,
even if this Ubuntu 10.04.2 -> 10.10 upgrade does work OK.

Grant.

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