whether my system is 32 bit o 64 bit?

[Colin Law]

On 31 October 2011 13:50, Linux Tyro <ubuntu.bkn1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
> wrote:
>
>> > 'uname -a' yields:
>>
>> > Linux myfamily-desktop 2.6.32-34-generic #77-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 13
>> > 19:40:53
>> > UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
>>
>> It's the "i686" part that counts. This means 32bit.
>> If you were using 64bit, it would say "x86_64" instead.
>
> Oh well, you mean right now I have these settings (32 bit) but my processor
> and a 2 GB RAM is capable of 64 too and if I were using that, it could have
> shown me like 'x86_64'!

Why are we going all round this again when the questions were answered
in the first few posts of the thread?

Colin