[vox-tech] 32 bit versus 64 bit linux

[Brian Lavender]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 06:19:50PM -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

That is 32 bit. You would see something like the following with Ubuntu 64 bit.
although this is with Debian 64 bit.

brian at mammoth:~$ uname -a
Linux mammoth 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 16 15:56:38 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux


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