On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:25 PM, terry houle <houletr at yahoo.com> wrote: > Thank you for the offer. Apologize for my dumbness as have been away from this many years and a newbie back then and still am. So ask some pretty dumb things as I know this is a pretty sophisticated > group. I have changed my mind and decided to go with Ubunto instead. To save you from embarrassment somewhere less friendly than here, note that it's "Ubuntu", with three Us, rather than "Ubunto". > But now a question came up with what I downloaded from Ubunto. In the download I selected 64 bit from the drop down since I have a Intel P6100 2.00 g chip and Intel indicates that is a 64 bit. Yet the > Ubunto drop down recommended using the 32 bit. But my dilemma with that 64 bit download is that is say AMD64. I am not sure what it will be if I download the 32 bit as recommended. Yeah, Canonical is still recommending 32-bit for everyone on the web site, presumably to minimize the chances of someone less technical getting confused if they try to run some kind of third-party software that happens to be 32-bit only, as some of that still exists out there. > So the question is will the 64bit AMD run with my Intel chip? > > If I download the 32 bit as recommended will that be an Intel instruction set and still be ok with my 64 bit chip. Certainly. (The architecture is called "amd64" basically just because AMD did it first - it's the same stuff for AMD and Intel now.) - Tony Yarusso