On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:46:01AM CEST, wolf python london <lyh19901...@gmail.com> said: > On 24 May 2011 23:26, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Mihira Fernando <mihirathe...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> On 05/24/2011 08:48 PM, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, everyone > >>> > >>> If the CPU core is i5, what package should be installed ia64 or i386? > >>> My old PC (Pentium-D core) is using i386 package. > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance. > >>> > >>> Best Regards, > >>> J.Hwan Kim > >>> > >>> > >> use amd64 if you want 64bit computing or i386 if you want to stick with > >> 32bit computing. ia64 is for the Intel Itanium range of processors. > > > > Actually I never understood why people would want to install i386 when > > amd64 is possible. Since from amd64 you can still run x86 code ... but > > not the other way around. Is there a drawback when installing an amd64 > > kernel ? > some applications(or programs) doesn't have a amd64 version , this is > the major reason. > Still some people(like me) learn programming ,it's a better way to use > i386 , 'cause many books > in the world(I mean as textbook) refer to i386 , such as pointer is 4 bytes.
It is a very bad reason. Let them find first hand that their book is making false assumption, before they do non-portable code... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110607063540.gb27...@rail.eu.org
