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If I have hardware that supports 64bit, is that what's recommended to use when it comes to debian or is 32bit a better option when it comes to stability and reliability?
If you want to take out the best out of your machine use 64 bit, 32 bit is generally better supported in some ways, so bassically if you want stability and reliability, generally speaking use 32 bit.
I use 64 bit now for a long time, and I don't see any problems with stability and reliability here.
The questions you have to answer before deciding:
1. What is your hardware, especially what amount of RAM do you have?
2. What is the purpose for the machine? Which applications do you intend to run?
3. Do you have any peripheral hardware (printer, webcam, ...) that has no 64 bit drivers available?
Answer this questions and we can give you more accurate recommendations.
The machine in question have 3gb of ram, but will be upgradet to at least 4gb shortly, and running Core 2 Duo proc. The purpose is to be used as general purpose workstation running both client systems and some servers such as Apache and MySQL, since I plan to use it for some development and playing around with Linux.
Some peripheral HW such as a network printer and possibly a webcam will be hooked up as well.
A network printer shouldn't be an issue, but may be the webcam is. You can easily try that with a 64 bit live-CD.
If you want to upgrade your machine to 4GB and maybe more and will do development and running servers I would go for a 64 bit system.
FYI: 64 bit Debian Stable is just as Stable as the 32 bit variant. Unless you have very specific reasons to stay at 32 bit, I'd suggest to go for a 64 bit setup. Try one first, see if there's any unresolved issue in 64 bit then make an informed decision to upgrade the rest. Do note that it's not possible to upgrade from a 32 bit system to a 64 bit system, you need to re-install.
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Debian stable - 32bit or 64bit
