On 7 June 2011 14:35, Erwan David <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:46:01AM CEST, wolf python london > <[email protected]> said: >> On 24 May 2011 23:26, Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Mihira Fernando <[email protected]> >> > 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... > that's the textbook vs product code . Textooks tell us the inner feature of programming languages and the computer system organizations, not teaching us how to write product code !
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