[Gllug] Which architecture?
James Holland
holland.james at yahoo.co.uk
Fri May 1 12:34:25 UTC 2009
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??
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