On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:26, Jordan Metzmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Oscar Corte <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I would like to test Debian on a new PC. > > > > It's a DELL XPS Inspiron 8100 with a Core i5 64 bits processor. > > > > What would it be the recommended architecture/versioin to choose for > > download an install? > > > > Could Intel IA-64 work right? > > > > No, IA-64 is for Intel Itanium CPUs > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium . You want i386 (32bit) or amd64 > (64bit). There are still minor issues with 64bit desktops. For > example, Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites > that the 32bit plugin will. > > -- > Jordan Metzmeier > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > I would suggest to go for amd64. Even if you have one or two i386 only applications, you could do the following. try using ia32-libs package worst case install a 32 bit chroot by spending a few hundred mb of space
