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

[Rigved Rakshit]

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> From: "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 05:56:17 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: Preparing Ubuntu 10.04 new install - 32 or 64 bit? Please
> suggest.
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:56:13 -0300, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
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> > 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?
>

As far as I know, AMD was the first to release 64-bit processors. So, in
honor of that, the 64-bit version is always called AMD64.
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