ArtLaForge
May 13th, 2010, 12:51 AM
Hi forum experts; I have built many computers both AMD and Intel based, but I'm new to Ubuntu and its compatibility to these two cpu designs. My research shows that they have different architectures that have some differences in their control registers. In my Linux research it looks like there are a couple of kernels that work for the em64T but they didn't say which kernels. This was a rather old article and I hope I hear that since Intel's newest cpu offerings are em64 all the amd64 kernels will work fine. If I go through the trouble of finding the right kernel to run 64 bit the mother board only supports 4 gig of memory, so to start off I feel like I'm wasting my time.
Since this build is for a family member that struggles with locating the power on button I think he would be happy if it just worked. All opinions/suggestions will be carefully studied and hopefully will help influence the final decision. If this computer would be sitting in my computer room with my other three I would just load 64 bit and play with it, I'm online with maverick, so I do like to have fun. All suggestions are welcome.
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Since this build is for a family member that struggles with locating the power on button I think he would be happy if it just worked. All opinions/suggestions will be carefully studied and hopefully will help influence the final decision. If this computer would be sitting in my computer room with my other three I would just load 64 bit and play with it, I'm online with maverick, so I do like to have fun. All suggestions are welcome.
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