Mark Allums a écrit : > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> my new notebook is an Acer AS5930G which uses an Intel Core 2 Duo cpu. >>> >>> I should like to install the 64 bit version of Lenny. >>> >>> Which is the correct arch for this processor? >>> >> >> Just for the record, the i386 works fine on that. But as others said, you >> can also install amd64. >> >> raju >> >> > > There is no good reason to install i386 on a Core 2. 64-bit is working > great, except for Flash. i386 has too many limits. > > The correct distribution is AMD64. EMT64 (Intel) is virtually identical > to AMD64, and both are covered by the AMD64 distribution, and in fact, > can both run a "generic" AMD64 kernel. > > ia64 is *NOT* what you want. > > Mark Allums > > Hi, Just to push in the same direction, I have 2 C2duo, both running amd64 Debian, one with a custom kernel compiled with the "c2duo - newer-xeon" arch instead of the generic "x86-64" which is the defaut. (can't tell the difference though...)
FlashPlayer is already available for native amd64 (not talking about the nspluginwrapper thing) in debian-multimedia (experimental only for now, but working better already than the aforementioned solution). Free alternatives are available too (swfdec, gnash...) for amd64. For java the icedtea jre and plug-in is working ok for me, and Sun announced a linux native x86-64 build of their browser plug-in for the next update (available as a beta already). AMD64 is no longer limited for a desktop user, if ia32 is absolutely required there's always a way round the problem, like static packages (Skype...), chroot, ia32libs or even a virtual machine. Go with AMD64. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
