whether my system is 32 bit o 64 bit?

Linux Tyro ubuntu.bkn1 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 17:19:26 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

Although that OS and pretty much all FOSS applications run just fine
> in 64 bit, the biggest problem that I've seen is Flash. Some hardware
> run Flash 64 bit just fine, and some hardware give terrible problems.
> I recommend booting into a 64 bit LiveCD and installing Flash. If you
> can play youtube videos and click to the different parts of the video,
> then you're fine and you can go ahead and install the 64 bit OS.
>

Good suggestion. Would do that.


> Note that if you are stuck on 32 bit and you have 4+ GB of RAM, you
> should install the PAE kernel.
>

Have only 2 GB ram but don't know what is PAE kernel and why it is used
(would have to read first about it). Thx.

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