On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:40:48PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> I just got my Compaq laptop CQ40-115AU and I want to install Lenny
> AMD64. What's the different if I use AMD64 instead of i386. My main
> use of laptop is for word processing and virtualization.
>
> Can any of AMD64 user share their experience or perhaps a bit of advice?
Points of difficulty can be:
1. Third party software that is not available. In my case I have to
run at least one i386-system to handle my scanner because the scanner
software from epkowa is not available for the 64-bit environment.
Skype and Googleearth are other examples. This problem can at least
in the case of Skype and Googleearth be solved by installing the
ia32-libraries.
2. Up till recently flash was also a problem but there is now a 64-bit
version of Adobe's flashplugin available.
I don't know what you are using for word processing. I use LaTeX.
Tools like Openoffice, Abiword ek Koffice works well on 64 bit.
For virtualization I use a 64-version of Sun's VirtualBox. Debian
packages are available. On our servers (also 64-bit) we use Debian's
Xen without problems.
I recently got a new Lenovo Thinkpad R61i and started out with Lenny
64-bit. However, I had several problems (like losing my network
connections intermittently) and in the end installed
Ubuntu Hardy amd64 and it had less problems - maybe because Ubuntu
uses drivers of which the license is not allowed in debian.
Regards
Johann
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