Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

2022-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Levis Yarema wrote: > Is there in deed any reason to prefer amd64 over i586 if you have the > choice and a machine with 2GB RAM or less, apart from perhaps long term > support? Twice the registers and sse instructions for fpu rather than x87? -- Len Sore

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

2022-04-14 Thread Levis Yarema
Is there in deed any reason to prefer amd64 over i586 if you have the choice and a machine with 2GB RAM or less, apart from perhaps long term support? Am Do., 14. Apr. 2022 um 10:38 Uhr schrieb Paul Wise : > On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 05:59 +0200, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: > > > And if it is indeed p

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

2022-04-14 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
On 14.04.22 10:37, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 05:59 +0200, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: And if it is indeed possible, how can I switch from i386 to amd64?  Can this be done with the apt tools?  Then during the migrating some packages will be from amd64 already while others will be sti

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

2022-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 05:59 +0200, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: > And if it is indeed possible, how can I switch from i386 to > amd64?  Can this be done with the apt tools?  Then during the > migrating some packages will be from amd64 already while others > will be still i386.  How does that go r