On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:07:47PM +0530, Siddharth Ravikumar wrote: > I don't use Flash and Skpype. I need emacs and Java OpenJDK 6 , these > are the two most important things . If they are already ported to > amd64 . Then its good news . Those work just fine on amd64. I use OpenJDK 6 all the time, and while I don't use emacs, I'm quite certain I'd have heard if it didn't work. According to [0], all Core i3 models support the amd64 architecture (which Intel calls Intel 64). Personally, if you don't need proprietary 32-bit programs, I certainly encourage you to go with amd64: it can provide small general speed improvements overall as well as very significant ones in some applications. 32-bit programs can be run very easily on an amd64 Debian system if they only use libraries installed by the ia32-libs* packages. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i3_microprocessors -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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