Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?
Mark Allums a écrit :
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> Mirto Silvio Busico wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> my new notebook is an Acer AS5930G which uses an Intel Core 2 Duo cpu.
>>>
>>> I should like to install the 64 bit version of Lenny.
>>>
>>> Which is the correct arch for this processor?
>>>
>>
>> Just for the record, the i386 works fine on that. But as others said, you
>> can also install amd64.
>>
>> raju
>>
>>
>
> There is no good reason to install i386 on a Core 2. 64-bit is working
> great, except for Flash. i386 has too many limits.
>
> The correct distribution is AMD64. EMT64 (Intel) is virtually identical
> to AMD64, and both are covered by the AMD64 distribution, and in fact,
> can both run a "generic" AMD64 kernel.
>
> ia64 is *NOT* what you want.
>
> Mark Allums
>
>
Hi,
Just to push in the same direction, I have 2 C2duo, both running amd64
Debian, one with a custom kernel compiled with the "c2duo - newer-xeon"
arch instead of the generic "x86-64" which is the defaut. (can't tell
the difference though...)
FlashPlayer is already available for native amd64 (not talking about the
nspluginwrapper thing) in debian-multimedia (experimental only for now,
but working better already than the aforementioned solution). Free
alternatives are available too (swfdec, gnash...) for amd64.
For java the icedtea jre and plug-in is working ok for me, and Sun
announced a linux native x86-64 build of their browser plug-in for the
next update (available as a beta already).
AMD64 is no longer limited for a desktop user, if ia32 is absolutely
required there's always a way round the problem, like static packages
(Skype...), chroot, ia32libs or even a virtual machine.
Go with AMD64.
Tom
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