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On 26/11/11 21:41, Grant Sewell wrote: > Hi all, > > Just performing an "upgrade" of my Ubuntu laptop - going from a > heavily modified 10.04.2 to a stock 10.10, and if that works then up > to a stock 11.04 and then 11.10. By the sheer number of errors I'm > getting, I'm not expecting the 10.04.2 -> 10.10 step to work smoothly, > so I'm downloading Debian Testing netinst images to burn. Now, the > laptop in question is a dual-core AMD64, however I've never actually > run any 64bit OSes on it - I guess I was put off by the "problems" > faced early on. Many years have passed since then, but have things > got any better? Yes, things have got better. > So, I ask you, fellow LUGgers: is it worth installing AMD64 Debian on > an AMD64 machine, or should I stick with i386 Debian? I'd go with AMD64 (x86-64). http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ Regards, Mike.
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