On 03/25/2010 07:31 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: > > I've never put linux on a laptop, but the latest version of > Scientific Linux is 5.4, and the Intel Core i5 Processor i5-430M of > your laptop has 64 bit architecture, so if it were up to me, I'd try > Scientific Linux 5.4 x86_64. >
If you have less or equal 4 GB of RAM, I would go with i386 instead of
x86_64. Because of browser plugins (flash, java) and javaws.
Just my 2 cents
Urs
