Hi everyone,

As I told you in a previous post, I had an old laptop which ran Slackware-current, but it died. As a replacement I got a great Toshiba Qosmio laptop with Win7 SP1.

Now 13.37 is nearing, and I would like to install it on a dual-boot setting with Win7.

My previous laptop was a 1.5 GHz Celeron M single core, 32-bit only. You might guess it wasn't exactly a speed demon.

However, this laptop has as a CPU a Centrino Intel Core 2 Duo T5450, which is 64-bit capable. Therefore, I would like to ask the following:

* Which one is better: 32 or 64 bit Slack?

* If the answer is 64 bit, what is the difference multilib makes?

* If I choose to install the 64-bit version of Slack, should I take some special precautions, or are there some things I must have in mind regarding its difference with 32-bit Slack?

Notes:

1. When I talk about 64-bit Slack, I'm meaning the official 64-bit Slackware Linux (i.e., not BlueWhite64 or similar).

2. When I am speaking about multilib, I'm meaning the multilib setup of AlienBob.

Thanks in advance... again!

A recent thread that you might find useful. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...stions-869676/

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Well you have Win7, you so probably don't need to use wine or virtualbox. That means you probably won't have a reason to run multilib to compile them. Unless you need proprietary 32bit binaries to run in linux, you won't need multilib.

This also means you don't need 32bit support in linux.

I would go with 64bit and get the potential 30%(?) speed increase for everything else.

I personally haven't run into any problems with 64bit slack or with the multilib layer on top of it... If you have proprietary video drivers (nvidia) and multilib, you have to use the actual installer and not the Slackbuild.

So to completely answer the question, one would need to know what you need to run in 32bits.

How much ram does it have? More than 4gb? That's a good reason for using 64bit. Otherwise, I'd just stick to 32.

The amount of RAM is 3 GB.

@allend: thank you! It really answers my questions. Marking this thread as solved.