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Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?



On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 07:45:20PM +0100, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> my new notebook is an Acer AS5930G which uses an Intel Core 2 Duo cpu.
> 
> I should like to install the 64 bit version of Lenny.
> 
> Which is the correct arch for this processor?

amd64 (a.k.a x86_64). Intel came later to that game and its processors 
became generally compatible with the instruction set originated by AMD.

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