[CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

Marko Vojinovic vvmarko at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 23:37:27 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 16 December 2009 21:52:05 Jake Shipton wrote:
> On 16/12/09 19:53, Scot P. Floess wrote:
> > I have one box on my home network that is x86_64 capable... 
> 
> Personally, if you had asked this 3 years ago, I'd have said "Go i686"
> due to compatibility.
> But now-a-days with up-to-date distributions there isn't many packages
> that aren't for x86_64.
> Heck even flash finally got a x86_64 Linux version now :-D (Took them
> long enough though!)
> 
> Any machine I have that can run in x86_64, I normally install a x86_64
> OS, and recently,
> I haven't found anything I need that is only i686.

Skype?

Best, :-)
Marko




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