On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200: > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote:
> > The x86_64 name is used by Red Hat and other distros. There are all > > the same thing really, but using the wrong name in the wrong > > context clouds the issues and leads to vast side-threads asking > > question that have no answers and that accomplish nothing. > > I'm sorry but I'm just used to call it this way, most of distros I > have tried in the past call it this way, anyway I'll try to memorize > it. Cool. Nothing worse than composing a decent post, only to then have to explain that you weren't using THIS definition but rather THAT one. It's an easy enough error to make (do it myself too) so no worries > > So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit > > machine > > I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I > guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just stick with the 32 > version, works great... Agreed. You have no obvious benefits from a 64 bit arch. You also get to not have to struggle with flash wondering if it will work this time or not ;-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
