On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Steve/WM5Z wrote:
Since my desktop PC died the other day, I am wanting a new PC. The
laptop is OK to get my mail and stuff, but not to good to use for
everyday hamming computing.
My question is, does the Intel duo processor still use the i686
version of Linux or will I need to get the 64 bit version?
Finally one I can answer!
I have a core 2 duo at work, with two 22" wide-screen LCD's (yea, I
know, I'm spoiled there).
I started out with OpenSuSE-11.0 32-bit on it, but switched it to
64-bit a couple of weeks ago. It feels about twice as fast now, and
it was a fast machine to begin with.
One downside is that the apps tend to use about twice as much memory
as they used to, even Xastir, so make sure you have enough memory.
I have 4GB on that machine and that seems to be enough for a lot of
programs at once.
Last week I installed 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 on a AMD X64 5000+ (2.6 GHz)
machine and it seems to be running fine. However, when I ran '/proc/
cpuinfo', it recognized that there were two cores but said the clock
was only 1000 MHz. Has anyone else seen this sort of anomoly?
Bob, N7XY
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