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Re: differences among amd64 and i386



On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:54:08PM +0000, fuf wrote:
> Near a half month ago I bought a comp. made into 2011 year and didn't knew
> which Debian12 to put: i386 or amd64?, chose i386 as thought that old comp.
> didn't take amd64.
> i386-netinst Debian 12 was being installed perfectly,  and later I could to
> read a disk owned to the comp.:
> CPU
> Support Processor Intel Sandy Bridge (Dual core / Quad core) (optional)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge

Instruction set x86-64
Instructions    x86, x86-64

You could run amd64 on this machine.  Right now, you have a choice
between the two, but some distributions have already dropped support
for i386.  amd64 would be the more future-proof choice.


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