Re: differences among amd64 and i386

Hello, On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 06:10:49AM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 7:45 PM Tixy wrote: > > Just announced today [1] it looks like Debian will drop i386 installs > > for the next release. > > > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg000

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 7:45 PM Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 18:19 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge > > > > Instruction set x86-64 > > Instructionsx86, x86-64 > > > > You could run amd64 on this machine. Right now, you have a choice > > betwee

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 18:19 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge > > Instruction set x86-64 > Instructions    x86, x86-64 > > You could run amd64 on this machine.  Right now, you have a choice > between the two, but some distributions have already dropped suppo

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 09:36:19AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Also see x32, . It takes advantage of amd64 benefits, and tries to reduce the memory pressures. x32 hasn't really gone anywhere and is unlikely to at this point; amd64 is the only reasonable choice

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 6:20 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:54:08PM +, fuf wrote: > > Near a half month ago I bought a comp. made into 2011 year and didn't knew > > which Debian12 to put: i386 or amd64?, chose i386 as thought that old comp. > > didn't take amd64. > > i3

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:54:08PM +, fuf wrote: > I don't notice differences among amd64 and i386 but think to pick among > this. Give advice, what better please? i386 (or any other 32-bit x86) Linux should generally not ever be used on any hardware that supports amd64. The main reason for

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

On 12/14/23 15:30, David Christensen wrote: On 12/14/23 13:54, fuf wrote:   Also, is there any simplest way to increase the font at the "bare base" at once after login? ... use Preferences in the Xfce Panel and the various applications to set their font sizes. A simpler way is to use Menu -

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

On 12/14/23 13:54, fuf wrote: Good day! Near a half month ago I bought a comp. made into 2011 year and didn't knew which Debian12 to put: i386 or amd64?, chose i386 as thought that old comp. didn't take amd64. What is the make and model of your computer? Processor? i386-netinst Debian 12 wa

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:54:08PM +, fuf wrote: > Near a half month ago I bought a comp. made into 2011 year and didn't knew > which Debian12 to put: i386 or amd64?, chose i386 as thought that old comp. > didn't take amd64. > i386-netinst Debian 12 was being installed perfectly, and later I c

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

> I don't notice differences among amd64 and i386 but think to pick among > this. Give advice, what better please? I will add memory if the spare slots > are, but maybe all busy? There are 2 slots only. I mostly use i386 on my machines, but it's mostly because that's what I started with 20 years

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

fuf writes: > Good day! Near a half month ago I bought a comp. made into 2011 year > and didn't knew which Debian12 to put: i386 or amd64?, chose i386 as > thought that old comp. didn't take amd64. i386-netinst Debian 12 was > being installed perfectly,  and later I could to read a disk owned t