Current version is 10.2.152.27. There's a preview of the 64 bit
version, apparently. I've had some issues lately with Flash in
Chromium on Ubuntu -- plugin crashing.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure there is no 64-bit version of Skype, so if you
want to use that, you should stick with 32bit.

-Erik

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Adam Morris
<adam.morris at redstargaming.net> wrote:
> Very true.  Has Adobe brought back Flash 10 for Linux yet?
> -A
> On Mar 6, 2011, at 13:07 , Erik Mitchell wrote:
>
> 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
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