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Re: Question about the version of debian



Le mercredi 13 avril 2011 à 14:02 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : 
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:47 +0800, YANG,Chao wrote:
> > dpkg --print-architecture shows
> > i386.
> > 
> > However, uname -a shows
> > x86-64
> > 
> > what does this mean?
> 
> It means Asias He was right.  And this is a perfectly valid
> configuration (though it confuses some third-party installers).
> 
> But I think this is a bug in the configuration of the CD/DVD creation:
> the amd64 flavour is on DVD 1 but the 686-bigmem flavour is on DVD 2.
> The latter definitely should be on DVD 1 (and CD 1 or 2, rather than CD
> 10!).

How is that a problem? An overwhelming majority of CPUs today are amd64,
and even if you choose to install a i386 userland (there are various
good reasons for that), you still want an amd64 kernel to benefit of all
your CPU can offer.

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