On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:37:22AM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > * Messier, Jean-Francois <jmessier [ at ] justice [ dot ] gc [ dot ] ca> [070419 09:33]: > > I'm currently getting Ubuntu 7.04, and my laptop is supposed to be > > 64-bit-capable. This is a Centrino 2 Duo. It has two of this 5200 > > processors, at 1.6 GHz. There is a 64-bit version of the latest Ubuntu, > > but it is marked as for AMD64. > > Intel cloned the amd64 (aka x86-64) platform. If you have a Intel > processor in a laptop that's capable of 64bit -- it's not Itanium -- > then it will run amd64 distributions. heh. ia64 (Itanium) in a laptop would just silly. Luckily, it doesn't exist. You can't buy ia64 mistakenly. It just won't happen. I don't think anyone even sells ia64 workstations anymore. HP did at one point but they were cancelled a few years ago. > > Ubuntu only has two processor flavours for x86 line: i586 and amd64. > > > Is this something that can run on Intel, or am I stuck with 32-bit ? > > So in short. Yes. yeah, what a braindead naming scheme. amd64 is really just x64-64. The kernel got the arch/x86_64 name right, so why did debian have to go do it wrong and confuse everyone? (including me, I might add....it never occured to me that the "amd64" distro would run on anything other than AMD processors) mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE
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