[vox-tech] 32 bit versus 64 bit linux

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:19 -0800, Jason Snyder wrote:
> How do I know what linux I have?  Whether it is 32 or 64.  I have
> ubuntu 9.10 but upgraded it to 10.4.
> 
> I typed the following and got the following results:
> 
> snyderjm at snyderjm-laptop:~$ uname -a
> Linux snyderjm-laptop 2.6.32-25-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16
> 19:48:22 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
> snyderjm at snyderjm-laptop:~$ 

32-bit

The i686 tells you that.

If it were 64-bit, it would say x86_64 like my system does:

Linux cat-in-the-hat 2.6.36-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 27 14:28:29 UTC
2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux