Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> Is it a 32-bit or 64-bit CPU? How old is it? Debian does compile for
> 32-bit architecture, for very old machines, so the 32-bit architecture
> might not be optimized to "modern" 32-bit CPUs. Some other distros
> ignore old hardware and compile for more recent 32-bit CPUs, so that the
> software won't work on very old hardware. For 64-bit architecture the
> difference between distros isn't that large. If hardware optimization
> does matter, depends to the task. AFAIK, regarding to the used math, the
> audio quality could differ.
Its 32 bit CPU. But I have heard that the distro running on 32 bit
works very well on 64 bit too (same as it works on 32 bit) but the
converse is not true.
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