Preparing Ubuntu 10.04 new install - 32 or 64 bit? Please suggest.

Lucio M Nicolosi lmnicolosi at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 06:04:56 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Juan R. de Silva
<juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:56:13 -0300, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Larry Vaden <vaden at texoma.net> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva
>>> <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:27:31 -0500, Larry Vaden wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Juan R. de Silva
>>>>> <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm going to install Ubuntu 10.04. When I get to the Ubuntu Download
>>>>>> page and selecte the desired version I am offered by default "32-bit
>>>>>> (recommended)" option.
>>>>>
>>>>> Live life in the fast lane, download Natty 64 bit.
>>>>
>>>> Unity?  Thank you, NO. I'd rather use Lucid 32 bit then.
>>>
>>> I think you can get any of the other Ubuntu-based distros and still
>>> report bugs in Natty for the benefit of the community.
>>>
>>> regards/ldv
>>
>> Natty Alpha is (of course) far from stable and Unity still sucks. Go
>> Maverick, that really works fine and 64
>
> I've just looked on Maveric's downloads. As far as I see the only one
> image available of 64 bit is for AMD. Am I missing something?

AMD 64 is the "nickname" it works for both Intel and AMD.



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