SaintDanBert
December 15th, 2009, 10:21 PM
Is there some utility that I might run that will tell me which of the various CPU architectures for some-buntu is the best fit for my workstation?
I see "386" and "generic" and "amd64" and all sorts of available downloads and repositories. How do I know which of these is the best fit for my workstation.
uname -a includes the string "i686" while the marketing literature says "Intel Core2 Duo". Is it really required that I poke around like some ultra-geek to find the best fit when I download a new edition of my favorite distro?
If uname reports "i686" why don't I find anything-686 on the distro download lists?
I can use uname or lshw or similar. What is a poor win-doze convert supposed to do?
... things might be better if we had some sort of utility that runs anywhere [java anyone?] and tells even non-geeks details so that they can fetch an apropriate distro edition.
~~~ 0;-Dan
I see "386" and "generic" and "amd64" and all sorts of available downloads and repositories. How do I know which of these is the best fit for my workstation.
uname -a includes the string "i686" while the marketing literature says "Intel Core2 Duo". Is it really required that I poke around like some ultra-geek to find the best fit when I download a new edition of my favorite distro?
If uname reports "i686" why don't I find anything-686 on the distro download lists?
I can use uname or lshw or similar. What is a poor win-doze convert supposed to do?
... things might be better if we had some sort of utility that runs anywhere [java anyone?] and tells even non-geeks details so that they can fetch an apropriate distro edition.
~~~ 0;-Dan