On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 08:42 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > For a home user, doing "home things" and only probably 1GB or less > of RAM, and the aforementioned hassles running Flash (and acroread), > I vote: stay with i386. > > OTOH, if this were your *workstation*, and you were doing lots of > compiling, or running statistical analyses, etc, etc, etc, then go > with amd64. > > It goes without saying that you should go amd64 on your servers. Hmm, I say that the workload and specific tasks determine 32-bit or 64-bit. Servers in general can be either. I have an HP Proliant DL145 G2 with an Opteron. I am running a -k7 kernel on this machine. IOW 32-Bit Debian Sid, not 64-Bit. I see many applications having bit-alignment errors in 64-bit environments. This then increases problems in unexpected areas. When I run into a requirement, I'll switch. But, there many reasons to go with 64-bit, massive memory requirements, tremendous processing, tons of IO... in general extreme requirements, require 64-bit environments at the moment. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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