[Gllug] Which architecture?

[Lesley Binks]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:34:25PM +0100, James Holland wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 09:33 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 May 2009 08:01:31 +0100, lesleyb at herlug.org.uk wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > The choice, if any, would appear to be between i386 and amd64?
> > > I am sure I read somewhere that one could use amd64 if one has more than
> > > 4GB memory.
> > > If anyone can advise, thanks in advance.
> > 
> > amd64 without a doubt.  If you install the i386 version you won't be able
> > to use all your RAM and you'll only have to upgrade later.  You can still
> > run 32-bit programs on 64 bit Debian so there doesn't seem any point in not
> > using it.
> > 
> > John
> 
> So you can run AMD64 on Intel then??
> 

In short, it would appear so :)

Regards

Lesley
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