Installing Ubuntu

[Duncan Martinez]

Thanks for all folks

Regards



> From: dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:55:51 -0500
> Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:47, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
> <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> > On Fri, March 12, 2010 17:44, Duncan Martinez wrote:
> >>
> >> Then the ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso file is good for install in my
> >> Intel-Dual Core, right?
> >
> > That's what the man said.
> >
> > Oh and another thing. The person who said or wrote that -amd64 is only for
> > AMD processors is wrong. Please correct them, before they confuse other
> > people.
> 
> Yeah, but the person who decided to call the 64bit ISO -amd64 is
> equally wrong.  If this was still back when you needed separate builds
> for AMD64 and EM64T that would be one thing, but since that's not
> really required anymore, a more generic term would be far more
> appropriate and less confusing...  x86_64 would be nice... x64 would
> be too, though someone may confuse that with IA64 for some reason, but
> not that many people know what an Itanium is anyway.. and the ones
> that do would be smart enough to know the difference between them...
> 
> For the OP:
> 
> Steve and Amedee gave you the answer :-)  the reason you'd want that
> is 32bit won't make as efficient use of your 6GB of memory.  If you
> had 3GB or less, 32bit would be fine.  at 4GB, 32bit still
> realistically only gives you 3.5GB.  64bit should give you full use of
> your 6GB for the most part.
> 
> A note of warning though...  64bit will run both 64bit and 32bit apps.
>  When you install software, you'll want to get the 64bit programs when
> possible.  You'll find that in many cases, a given program will be
> available in both 64bit and 32bit versions.  For cases where there are
> only 32bit versions, those should work fine on a 64bit system.
> 
> And because I throw the term 64bit around loosely... in this case,
> 64bit = amd64 or x86_64 or x64 (all one in the same now) and does not
> mean IA64 (completely different processor architecture).
> 
> Cheers
> Jeff
> 
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