[sf-lug] use 32 or 64 bit on 64 bit capable hardware: Re: installing minimal debian and building on that

[Alex Kleider]

On 2018-12-08 18:26, Tony Godshall wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 2:46 PM Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, Akkana.  I'm leaning more towards 64bit but will wait to hear
>> any further advice that might come in from Rick and/or Michael (or
>> anyone else for that matter.)  One of the many virtues of Linux as I
>> understand it is that it does work well on old hardware so mine must 
>> be
>> an issue faced by many.
> ...
> 
> In the past I would have said that 32-bit would be preferred for
> support of legacy hardware, since some devices don't have
> 64-bit binary blobs, but Debian multi-arch has pretty much
> removed those constraints, and I've been able to run legacy
> 32-bit programs on 64-bit Debian for the past couple of years
> without issue.

Thanks for that input.
Alex