Jan 3, 2011 · X64, amd64 and x86-64 are names for the same processor type. It's often called amd64 because AMD came up with it initially. All current general-public 64-bit desktops and …

Jun 18, 2014 · For the record, it was AMD that originally spec'd out the 64 bit architecture so AMD got put their name on the istruction set. You can safely associate any PC 64-bit processor with …

Mar 22, 2014 · The difference between amd64 and i386 is that amd64 is 64-bit while i386 is 32-bit. This is the width (in bits) of registers available in the core. Basically the largest number that …

Mar 26, 2015 · AMD64 is the real 64 bits architecture that AMD created and intel licensed it and uses it even today (just as AMD had the license to use x86 on the 32 bit CPUs). x86_64 far as …

Nov 16, 2019 · amd64 is x86 based 64-bit (but not ia64 which is a different architecture) pc64el is for POWER 64-bit (but which is different from s390x) arm64 is for ARM 64-bit, which is mostly …

Jun 23, 2020 · As described in ubfan1's answer, you can install both grub-pc-bin and grub-efi-amd64-bin. But note that there are some files in the grub-pc and grub-efi packages …

I have a Intel 64-bit processor in my laptop with 8GB of RAM memory. I found somewhere that if I want to take the most out of my machine (processor and memory) I should use the 64-bit version.

May 8, 2015 · If you want to use VirtualBox instead of KVM use VBoxManage convertfromraw ubuntu-15.04-snappy-amd64-generic.img ubuntu-15.04-snappy-amd64-generic.vdi --format …

Sep 17, 2012 · When running uname -a, I get as output 41-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 13 17:59:54 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Can someone please explain to me why both i386 …

amd64 is a description of the chip architecture, like x86 (or i386) was for 32-bit architectures. AMD developed and released 64-bit chips before intel, and iirc, intel actually liscensed the AMD …