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[Lucio M Nicolosi]

Andrew Kane wrote:
> The image you need depends on the sort of hardware you have,
> specifically the CPU. The i386 image is for Intel 32-bit chips, 386 up
> to Pentium 4. For Intel 64-bit chips there is one called (I think)
> ia64. There are images for 32-bit AMD machines (I don't remember what
> that image is called) and for 64-bit AMD machines (amd64).
> I see that the Ubuntu download site has been "dumbed-down" even
> further, making it more difficult to find a specific image. I really
> really really wish that Ubuntu would stop doing this sort of thing.
> There is a difference between eliminating options from an interface
> and making it user-friendly. It's unfair of them to make things *less*
> friendly for us experienced users for the "benefit" of the new users,
> who will have to climb a learning curve anyway.
> Aaaaaaaaaaanyway...
> If you don't know what sort of cpu you have I'm sure someone on the
> list can enlighten you if you tell us the make and model of your
> machine. If you have Windows running there is a way to ascertain this
> as well- right-click on "My Computer", select "Properties," and look
> for a tab that says something like "About this Computer."
> In the meantime I will see if I can find where they are hiding the iso
> images these days, and I'll post the link if / when I find it.
> Good luck!
>
>   
IMHO Andrew's posting is far from precise and should be specially 
disregarded by new users.

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L.

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