Is there any method to install ubuntu on intel x86_64 platform?

[dorimosiada]

hi guys!
my system is intel x86_64 platform.
and I want to install ubuntu on my platform, Intel x86_64.
but I can't not find the ubuntu for the platform.
only possible to AMD x86_64?

want to hear any answer about that.

thx

[MiataMuc]

Hi,

the AMDx86_64 versions of Ubuntu are for both the AMD and the Intel 64bit platforms; as far as I know, the name "AMDx86_64" was made in a time where only AMD delivered 64bit platforms.

I run Kubuntu 7.10 AMDx86_64 on a Intel® Core 2 Duo T8100 prozessor (Lenovo Thinkpad R61).

Hope this helps,

Flo

[natros]

Why they don't change the name to x86_64?

[khensucat]

The names can be used practically interchangeably. Intel NON-Itanium 64-bit processors are based on AMD 64bit. Although called (IIRC) EM64T, it is essentially AMD 64-bit processor-compatible architecture. Of course, that's a bit oversimplified, and of course Intel has made other architectural changes, but I think that's a pretty good basic explanation.

So, for the overwhelming amount of consumer desktops, AMD64 and x86-64 are the same thing ;) Six of one, half a dozen of the other.