On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Siddharth Ravikumar <[email protected]> wrote: > I am planning to build my own computer . I have choosen to use intel > i3 as my processor , I just want to know whether debian amd64 will be > the right debian port If am to use intel i3 ? . > > i have not yet bought the processor , so I would like to know whether > 32-bit processor or 64-bit processor is recommended given the fact > that I use only GNU/Linux based operating system .
There's somewhat more software that runs on IA-32 than on x86_64. The sorts of things that people find missing on x86_64 are: - Adobe Flash - Possibly Skype - Third party things provided in binary form (e.g. - no sources) If you care about those sorts of applications a lot, then that should certainly influence your decision, probably towards 32 bit. If not, then there's still often not *strong* reason to prefer 64 bit - it's not vastly superior on all kinds of workloads, though there are considerable advantages for applications that can really use a lot of memory. -- http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
