DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

I have a copy of Fedora 10 that came inside a Linux Format magazine. I installed it on a new system with 8 gb of RAM and a quad core AMD CPU. When I issue the free command I see all 8 gb of RAM. Does that mean that the distro installed itself as a 64 bit version? If so, is there an easy way to

Re: DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

Alex Hewitt wrote: I have a copy of Fedora 10 that came inside a Linux Format magazine. I installed it on a new system with 8 gb of RAM and a quad core AMD CPU. When I issue the free command I see all 8 gb of RAM. Does that mean that the distro installed itself as a 64 bit version? If so,

Re: DDQOTD (Dumb Distro Question of the Day) Does Fedora 10 install as a 64 bit OS when it senses 64 bit hardware?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote: Linux hostname.localdomain 2.6.27.5.117.fc10.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 12:08:10 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux The i386 indicates the running kernel is for the i386 architecture. In other words, 32-bit. A