On Tue Feb 20, 2007 at 10:07:46PM +0900, Andrew Church wrote: > >> I am having 64bit version of Kubuntu on my laptop. correct me if i am > >> wrong, i have to use amd-64 version of the distro for 64 bit > >> architecture of intel too. > > This is incorrect, AFAIK; AMD's 64-bit instruction set, AMD64 (also > known as x86-64), is not compatible with Intel's IA-64. If there is no > IA64 build of transcode around (and I'm not aware of one), you'll need to > use the standard 32-bit build. > The Core 2 won't be using IA-64 - that's Itanium only. It should be using x86-64 though I believe there are some incompatabilities with Intel's implementation (surprise, surprise). I'm not sure how many and how severe they are though.
Cheers,
Robin
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