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

 

On 26/11/11 21:41, Grant Sewell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just performing an "upgrade" of my Ubuntu laptop - going from a
> heavily modified 10.04.2 to a stock 10.10, and if that works then up
> to a stock 11.04 and then 11.10.  By the sheer number of errors I'm
> getting, I'm not expecting the 10.04.2 -> 10.10 step to work smoothly,
> so I'm downloading Debian Testing netinst images to burn.  Now, the
> laptop in question is a dual-core AMD64, however I've never actually
> run any 64bit OSes on it - I guess I was put off by the "problems"
> faced early on.  Many years have passed since then, but have things
> got any better?

Yes, things have got better.

> So, I ask you, fellow LUGgers: is it worth installing AMD64 Debian on
> an AMD64 machine, or should I stick with i386 Debian?

I'd go with AMD64 (x86-64).
http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/

Regards,
Mike.

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