Re: ia64 and i386
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:46:01AM CEST, wolf python london <lyh19901223@gmail.com> said:
> On 24 May 2011 23:26, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Mihira Fernando <mihiratheace@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 05/24/2011 08:48 PM, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi, everyone
> >>>
> >>> If the CPU core is i5, what package should be installed ia64 or i386?
> >>> My old PC (Pentium-D core) is using i386 package.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>> J.Hwan Kim
> >>>
> >>>
> >> use amd64 if you want 64bit computing or i386 if you want to stick with
> >> 32bit computing. ia64 is for the Intel Itanium range of processors.
> >
> > Actually I never understood why people would want to install i386 when
> > amd64 is possible. Since from amd64 you can still run x86 code ... but
> > not the other way around. Is there a drawback when installing an amd64
> > kernel ?
> some applications(or programs) doesn't have a amd64 version , this is
> the major reason.
> Still some people(like me) learn programming ,it's a better way to use
> i386 , 'cause many books
> in the world(I mean as textbook) refer to i386 , such as pointer is 4 bytes.
It is a very bad reason. Let them find first hand that their book is
making false assumption, before they do non-portable code...
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