On Saturday December 22 2007 13:32:32 Bogart Salzberg wrote: > On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On Saturday December 22 2007 10:11:48 Sven Hoexter wrote: > >>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0100, abdelkader > >>> belahcene > >> > >> wrote: > >>>> HI, > >>>> I have an AMD laptop, > >>>> I downoloaded ia64 iso image , I thought it is the same, > >>>> I can't boot with the CD; > >>>> what is the difference between them? > >>> > >>> It's a different architecture. > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64 > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64 > >> > >> After 13 years (HP partnered with Intel in 1994), I'm truly > >> shocked that anyone geek enough to want to self-install > >> Linux doesn't know the difference between ia64/Itanic and > >> AMD64. > > > > Well, I'm not shocked because of that, I'm shocked because > > she/he says that'd have an _AMD_ laptop and didn't use the > > amd64 port straightforward but ia64. > > I think we ought to be encouraging of geekful aspirations > rather than rolling our eyes. My 2 cents. Maybe others think differently, but being shocked (extremely surprised) does not mean that I am dismissive. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Don't tell me peace has broken out." Bertolt Brecht
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