Re: Difference between 32 bits arch and 64 ones

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Xavi León <Javier.Leon-Gutierrez@upc.edu> writes:

> Hi all,
>     We have a server with a AMD Athlon 64 Processor and i was looking
>     for a Debian port to this processor. But the sarge version for
>     this architecture is still in testing.
>
>     My question is if there is a lot of difference between the sarge
>     i386 version and the AMD64 one (faster, reliabilty, etc.) and
>     which one is better to install in a scratch installation of a
>     server. I'm thinking (too) arround installing a Ubuntu 5.04 which
>     has a full supported AMD64 version for this server.
>      What do you recommend???
>     Thx!!!
>
> Xavi

Ubuntu amd64 is rather less stable than Debian amd64. They already
switched to gcc-4.0 which we found unsatisfactory unstable in the
past.

Also i386 should be slightly more stable than amd64 due to a much
larger group of testers and longer experience with it. But it will
generaly be slightly slower.

That said, I personaly had my first amd64 crash in about 2 years just
last week and had to reboot. Just like I had i386 crash once in a long
while before that.


You just have to test and see if the software you need shows any
obvious problems.

MfG
        Goswin