whether my system is 32 bit o 64 bit?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Sun, October 30, 2011 09:48, Linux Tyro wrote:
> 2011/10/30 Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org>
>
>> i686 is it 64 bit?
>> 32 bit.
>
>
> Okay.
>
> But why was I confused, as read on net (google) that when invoked the
> command:
>
> myfamily at myfamily-desktop:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
> The output has one of the lines as follows:
>
> 'model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R)  CPU       E5200  @ 2.50GHz'
>
> and it was written that E5200 was 64 bit, but as confirmed by the command
> ('i686'), now its 32 bit.

Common confusion.
Your CPU is _capable_ of 64bit, but _at the moment_ you are using 32bit.