Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

[Anand Sivaram <aspnair@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:26, Jordan Metzmeier <titan8990@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Oscar Corte <oect_1964@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I would like to test Debian on a new PC.
>
> It's a DELL XPS Inspiron 8100 with a Core i5 64 bits processor.
>
> What would it be the recommended architecture/versioin to choose for
> download an install?
>
> Could Intel IA-64 work right?
>

No, IA-64 is for Intel Itanium CPUs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium . You want i386 (32bit) or amd64
(64bit). There are still minor issues with 64bit desktops. For
example, Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites
that the 32bit plugin will.

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I would suggest to go for amd64.  Even if you have one or two i386 only applications, you could do the following.

try using ia32-libs package

worst case install a 32 bit chroot by spending a few hundred mb of space