Hello, 2007/9/15, pietia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi > > Do you have any experiences in that competition: Debian amd64 vs Debian > i386 ?
yes :) > Is i386 still faster than amd64 ? the question isn't wether it's faster or not it's more like the need of 64bit. You can easily go beyond 4GB of RAM (also possible with i386 but you need a kernel option for that which is afaik enabled anyway in standard debian kernels) > And what with missing packages like flash plugin ? if you want a desktop PC stay with i386 since there isn't anything available that makes flash work out of the box with amd64. It can however be done (look at the various posts on this list which suggest in essence a chroot and a full 32bit installation of firefox/iceweasel) Personally I don't care (for desktops) about 64 vs 32 bit. The reason for that is that I disable flash anyway since it's useseless for me. For servers I keep with 64bit if (and only if) I expect to need more than 4GB of RAM (which is the usual use case). If I have to decide actively wether I use 32 or 64 bit on a desktop with linux i choose 32bit because most of the software will "just work". On the other hand of course if you don't mind some plumbing the "64 bit marketing lie" (faster) won't be much of trouble for you. Just my experience... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
