On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:30:58AM +0200, Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > That list may show the user which option they have, but still no guide > which to choose. I was more thinking about something like this: > > http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.co.at/2010/08/32-bit-vs-64-bit-linux-which-to-choose.html > > There's a long debate in the comments below the article. It doesn't seem > to be an easy question - 32 or 64 bit. But some facts will hopefully > help users to make a decisions - such as this or that does or does not > work with 64 bit or speed is only affected in certain situations. Some > things, such as compatibility, do, of course, change with time, so if > the Installation Guide is too static to include such things maybe a > pointer to a wiki page or IRC channel might help. > > I will reinstall debian on two machines and the server machine doesn't > support 64 bit, so that's an easy decision. But for my desktop ... I'm > still not decided.
To some extent it doesn't matter much anymore. You can install a 64bit kernel even if you install 32bit debian and get a lot of the benefit of 64 bit that way. Also with multiarch support coming in wheezy (as far as I know), when you upgrade to wheezy the choice doesn't even matter anymore since you can then do both. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
