Linux on an AMD64 box...

[Russell]

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At 09:56 AM 8/14/2006 -0400, 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.
>
>Thanks.
>-- 
>
>yours,
>
>William
>
>


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