* Martin Hicks <mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org> [070419 09:54]: > > 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) All the Intel platforms start with 'i'. Debian did it to give credit to amd, and recall that amd64 was the original name for the platform. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason that AMD changed it to x86-64 (after they had first samples) was because Intel told them they would never adopt a platform that had amd in the name. -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/