<p>Flash and Skype, for example, are easier on 32 bit.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 6, 2011 12:56 PM, "Tony Yarusso" <<a href="mailto:tonyyarusso@gmail.com">tonyyarusso@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:25 PM, terry houle <<a href="mailto:houletr@yahoo.com">houletr@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Thank you for the offer. Apologize for my dumbness as have been away from this many years and a newbie back then and still am. So ask some pretty dumb things as I know this is a pretty sophisticated<br>>> group. I have changed my mind and decided to go with Ubunto instead.<br>
> <br>> To save you from embarrassment somewhere less friendly than here, note<br>> that it's "Ubuntu", with three Us, rather than "Ubunto".<br>> <br>>> But now a question came up with what I downloaded from Ubunto. In the download I selected 64 bit from the drop down since I have a Intel P6100 2.00 g chip and Intel indicates that is a 64 bit. Yet the<br>
>> Ubunto drop down recommended using the 32 bit. But my dilemma with that 64 bit download is that is say AMD64. I am not sure what it will be if I download the 32 bit as recommended.<br>> <br>> Yeah, Canonical is still recommending 32-bit for everyone on the web<br>
> site, presumably to minimize the chances of someone less technical<br>> getting confused if they try to run some kind of third-party software<br>> that happens to be 32-bit only, as some of that still exists out<br>
> there.<br>> <br>>> So the question is will the 64bit AMD run with my Intel chip?<br>>><br>>> If I download the 32 bit as recommended will that be an Intel instruction set and still be ok with my 64 bit chip.<br>
> <br>> Certainly. (The architecture is called "amd64" basically just because<br>> AMD did it first - it's the same stuff for AMD and Intel now.)<br>> <br>> - Tony Yarusso<br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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