Re: Difference between 32 bits arch and 64 ones
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
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