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Re: Intel Atom Processor



On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:47:44 +0000, Lisi wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 February 2010 15:48:03 Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:34:09 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> [snip]
>> > I.e. just use your regular 32bit Intel install (i386/x86/i686/IA32 or
>> > whichever name you like to use to refer to it).
>>
>> In Debian is called "i386".
> 
> Running Debian Lenny:
> lisi@Tux:~$ uname -a
> Linux Tux 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 08:59:21 UTC 2010 i686
> GNU/Linux lisi@Tux:~$

Debian uses "i386" for naming the whole 32 bits architecture:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#id3060035

Other distros use "x86" for i386/i486/i586/i686 packages and "x86_64" for 
64 bits. Don't ask me why, I didn't decide those names :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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