Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-15 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
2010/7/14 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > * > mordor:/home/gpall# grep multime /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main > mordor:/home/gpall# aptitude search flashplayer-mozilla > mordor:/home/gpall# > > > change your sources.list to deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeez

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-14 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 07/06/2010 09:07 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 7/5/2010 5:40 PM, Jim McCloskey wrote: >> >> I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install >> Debian (squeeze) on it. > > The machine has a 1.6GHz >> Intel Quad Core processor and 6GB of RAM. The GPU is an ATI Mobility >> Radeon

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/06/2010 01:40 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark put forth on 7/5/2010 11:51 PM: I admire the OP's class in his response. Thought that comment about youtube and pr0n was completely unnecessary and unsolicited when I read it. Dry humor doesn't include emoticons. "If you're that addicted t

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 7/5/2010 11:51 PM: > I admire the OP's class in his response. Thought that comment about youtube > and pr0n was completely unnecessary and unsolicited when I read it. Dry humor doesn't include emoticons. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/07/10 23:40, Jim McCloskey wrote: I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that the amd64 port is now very complete, and that the p

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/5/2010 5:40 PM, Jim McCloskey wrote: I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install Debian (squeeze) on it. The machine has a 1.6GHz Intel Quad Core processor and 6GB of RAM. The GPU is an ATI Mobility Radeon (HD 5470) with 1GB of onboard memory. Do you not mean

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim McCloskey wrote: > I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install > Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit > install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that > the amd64 port is now very complete, and that the principal diffi

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 iul 10, 15:40:04, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install > Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit > install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that > the amd64 port is now very complet

Re: Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jim McCloskey wrote: > |> Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here > |> is simply...sad. > |> > |> If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n > > Sigh ... suppresses irritation. > > But thank you very much for this advice: > [...] I

Re: Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here |> is simply...sad. |> |> If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n Sigh ... suppresses irritation. But thank you very much for this advice: |>go with a 32bit kernel with PAE |> ("bigmem")

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 05 July 2010 15:58:48 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Jim McCloskey put forth on 7/5/2010 5:40 PM: > > If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very > > much appreciate hearing it, > > Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here is > simply...sad. >

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/05/2010 05:40 PM, Jim McCloskey wrote: I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that the amd64 port is now very complete, and that

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 17:11, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:58:48 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Jim McCloskey put forth on 7/5/2010 5:40 PM: >> >> > If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very >> > much appreciate hearing it, >> >> Allowing a single web pl

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:58:48 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Jim McCloskey put forth on 7/5/2010 5:40 PM: > > > If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very > > much appreciate hearing it, > > Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here is > simply.

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jim McCloskey put forth on 7/5/2010 5:40 PM: > If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very > much appreciate hearing it, Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here is simply...sad. If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n go with a 32bit kern