<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Juan R. de Silva" <<a href="mailto:juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com">juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com</a>> To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> 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: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Larry Vaden <<a href="mailto:vaden@texoma.net">vaden@texoma.net</a>> wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva >> <<a href="mailto:juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com">juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com</a>> 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 >>>> <<a href="mailto:juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com">juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com</a>> 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? </blockquote><div> 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. </div></div>