Flash and Skype, for example, are easier on 32 bit. On Mar 6, 2011 12:56 PM, "Tony Yarusso" <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110306/375deabd/attachment.html>