Linux on an AMD64 box...

[James Knott]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> My wife's computer was in the shop this past week (the motherboard went
> blooey) and she's been logging into my Linux desktop with an account of
> her own.  Well, it should surprise no one here, but she'd like to
> switch, and "just have Windows once in a while, for some software".  I
> explained dual booting and virtualization as a couple of choices, and
> she's decided that she wants to dual boot.  
> 
> I am terribly pleased, but I want it to go well, so I thought I'd ask
> here for any gotchas on running Linux on the AMD64 architecture.  I've
> heard a few things, like Firefox having to run in 32-bit mode (or is
> that just Flash?  I don't remember) but I don't know how you'd set
> something like this up.
> 
> I plan to use Debian, because that's what I use and I know it best, and
> so I'd love to hear any advice about getting that set up so she
> experiences minimal disruption - the whole point of running Linux for
> her is that it's easier, more flexible and more secure, so if it's a big
> hassle she'll go back to what she knows.

I run 64 bit SUSE 10.1 on my AMD 64 bit system.  Most things are 64 bit,
but Mozilla, Firefox etc., are 32 bit, because the plugins are still
available only in 32 bit.

What's most important though, is that I have a 64 bit version of
Solitaire!  ;-)
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