On 09/07/2020 09:08 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Mon, 7 Sep 2020, Richard Owlett wrote:
I have two underlying questions:
1. As everything I currently use runs fine, what would I gain by
switching to amd64 flavor?
My 2 cents worth:
If everything you do runs well on a 32-bit installtion, stay there. But be
aware that a number of applications are dropping their 32-bit builds and
you lose nothing by switching now to only 64-bit installations and
applications.
But what would I gain ;}
That's part of why I was asking for a "reading list" to understand the
trade-offs. In a way, it's a should have asked 5-10 years ago. App I use
that is not in the Debian repository is SeaMonkey which appears to
continue to offer both.
2.What 32 bit utilities are there to identify the hardware
capabilities of a particular machine?
Not sure I understand what capabilities have you concerned. But, lspci (a
utility for displaying information about PCI buses in the system and
devices
connected to them), lsusb (a utility for displaying information about USB
buses in the system and the devices connected to them), and lshw (a small
tool to extract detailed information on the hardware configuration of the
machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, main‐
board configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed,
etc. on DMI-capable x86 or IA-64 systems). Probably others, too.
I'll put together a bootable flash drive with those as menu items to see
which give the desired info and convenient presentation. That should
keep me busy for a while.
Germane to hardware capabilities I recommend looking at the motherboard
manual for a start.
I get involved in situations where hardware manuals aren't immediately
available. Thus desire to use software to probe a "black box".
Thank you.
HTH,
Rich
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