On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie>wrote:
> It's a while since I bought a new desktop. Last time round I decided
> against 64-bit on the grounds it was a bit too new, but should I go for
> it now?
>> Main uses: general desktop, stats crunching, light web serving, Debian
> unstable.
>Are you asking about hardware or software? I assume by now all chips
support both 32 and 64 bit, and its the deciding on whether you install a 32
bit or 64 bit version of Debian that you have to do. And with
virtualisation support on the chip you can even run 64bit guest machines on
a 32 bit host OS
>> Brendan
> --
> Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland
> Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F1-009 x 3147
> mailto:brendan.halpin at ul.ie>http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html> --
> Irish Linux Users' Group mailing list
> About this list : http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug> Who we are : http://www.linux.ie/> Where we are : http://www.linux.ie/map/>
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
