On Wednesday 2009 January 07 04:18:27 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Joel Roth schreef: > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:40:48PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> I just got my Compaq laptop CQ40-115AU and I want to install Lenny > >> AMD64. What's the different if I use AMD64 instead of i386. My main > >> use of laptop is for word processing and virtualization. I don't think VT is available in non-64-bit mode, so you'd probably want a 64-bit kernel and a 64-bit version of your virtualization software, if it can make use of VT. For word processing, the extra registers could help, but the CPU will be idling mostly anyway. So, you won't see much benefit and your word processor will take up some more memory. (64-bit pointers vs. 32-bit pointers -> All programs take some more memory.) Even if all you did was word processing, if you have more than 3G of memory, you'll want 64-bit so you can use it all. (PAE is much slower by comparison.) > >> Can any of AMD64 user share their experience or perhaps a bit of advice? > > > > A lot of the amd64 nerds out there are busy installing 32-bit > > chroot environments to run software the doesn't run under > > amd64. > Why? I have no software that doesn't run in 64-bit mode. There are a few > 32 bit programmes that run fine with the ia32libs-package, and for Skype > you download the static build. Yeah, I've been amd64 since 2005 and I never had a chroot. Non-free just isn't that important for me -- I avoid java, flash, skype, google-earth, etc. Flash has a 64-bit plugin now, although I use gnash. OpenJDK and associated projects should give us a 64-bit plugin soon, if not already. I have no need for skype of google-earth with ekiga and marble being available. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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