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While all new computers will be 64bit, a multitude of older hardware
is 32bit ONLY.<br>
For example ALL of my servers and laptops are. My main laptop is an
Apple Macbook from 2006....<br>
Beauty of linux is that it still runs reasonably fast on older
hardware while you always need latest hardware for OSX and
reasonably new hardware for Windows.<br>
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Please keep that in mind.<br>
While it's okay to promote 64bit, keep 32bit in parallel.<br>
<br>
"uname -a" is great, but that needs a system installed already...
;-) So you will need some sort of blurb on the download page for the
novices to make an educated decision of which to download.<br>
Ie: "If your system is pre 2010, it is likely that you will need
32bit install". This will give you a working system in any case.
Rather than resulting in a frustrated novice having been
enthusiastic starting with linux and then ending up with a
non-functional 64bit system.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Ingo<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/09/2013 07:45, Aaron Honeycutt
wrote:<br>
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<div>I’ll included that in the official docs as it does seems to
be important. The “uname -a” command will give you information
about your kernel build which in turn will give you what you
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<div class="PlainText">Jonathan Riddell <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jr@jriddell.org"><jr@jriddell.org></a>
wrote:<br>
>Should we follow and recommend 64 bit?<br>
><br>
>My gut feeling is that most people have 64 bit computers
now and I<br>
>trust the foundation team to have done the legwork to
verify that. So<br>
>I'm in favour of it.<br>
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Most do, but there have been stacks of 32 bit only Atom
netbooks sold in the last several years. Given that we want to
be friendly to non-technical users, I think we should wait. <br>
<br>
Try writing out the instructions for a non-technical user to
figure out if they need a 32 bit image. I'm not sure how to do
it.<br>
<br>
I'd suggest we do this for 14.10.<br>
<br>
Scott K<br>
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