[CentOS] which iso package for AMD Clawhammer 3700+ 64

[Sam Drinkard]

Johnny Hughes wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:16 -0600, rado wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:58 -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:
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>>>Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:36:34AM -0600, rado wrote:
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>>>>>Hi!
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>>>>>In the next few days...maybe even this afternoon, I will be putting
>>>>>together a 64 w/the AMD Clawhammer 3700+ 64.
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>>>>From what I can see, the best build for your Clawhammer (CG) processos
>>>>is indeed the x86_64 one.
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>>>Yep.  Though you can also install the 32-bit x86 distro in a pinch, 
>>>can't ya?
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>>>Cheers,
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>>thx for your replies U2...appreciated ...so I am on the right track
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>>kk...so it might be possible to install the 32 bit. But, ignorant as I
>>am on this and not in any pinch, I don't believe anyway. It seems that
>>if you have a 64 bit processor, the way to go is to install the 64 bit
>>on it to take advantage of the 64...
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>>Seems to me that's the way it should work...If not, then I am way out of
>>bounds w/my thinking.
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>>well, ya, 32bit should run on a 64...the proc just has to step down.
>>This is just IMHO tho.
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>>thx
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>>John Rose
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>The difference being that there are not all the items for x86_64 as
>there are for i386 ... and some of the stuff that is in the x86_64
>distro is i386 (Open Office, for example).
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>So ... my recommendation is this:
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>1.  If you are going to install a workstation where you want OpenOffice,
>Firefox with plugins, audio/video programs, etc ... use i386
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>2.  If you are installing a server where you will not need any i386
>software (open office, mp3 junk, browser plugins, etc.) then use x86_64.
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I have the OO installed here, and there does not seem to be any issues 
with it, however I don't use it much either.  There may be some 
functionality of OO in the x86 version that is not in the x86-64, but 
I'm not an avid user of either, so I can't state without question.  I 
did install the OO package during install.  As for the other stuff 
Johnny mentioned, he's correct in that some of the whing-ding packages 
aren't there under the 86-64.  Again, there might be issues with 
building software as I mentioned in first response, but most have been 
workable.

Sam

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