Exactly a week ago I received a new to me Thinkpad T410 with a Core i5 processor, etc. It didn't take long to learn the laptop was running much cooler with the 64 bit kernel even on a 32 bit userland. However, VirtualBox refused to run in that arrangement. So I installed the Wheezy amd64 and bumped it to Sid right away. A week later and this system just flies! So far I've not even enabled multi-arch as everything, except Google Earth which wanted the i386 compatibility lib and whatnot else. So I've left it uninstalled.
I am sold on this 64 bit stuff! This laptop is so quiet it reminds my of my original Coco 2. Ha! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
