Forgive my newbie question. I'm trying to setup an "experimental" AMD64 linux-box at my workplace. In order to run x86-64 (native) applications, I understand you need both a 64-bit CPU (HARDWARE) and ...

Most desktop and laptop computers from the past two decades use 64-bit x86 processors, but older 32-bit x86 CPUs (also known as i386 or i686) are still around. Even though Windows and many Linux ...

Nvidia has officially announced that it plans to withdraw support for 32 bit (x86) Linux operating systems at some stage in the future. Nvidia stated that “Future versions of the CUDA toolkit might ...

The latest release, Debian 13, codenamed Trixie, released on Aug. 9. This latest version features numerous updates and introduces some notable changes. Perhaps the one alteration that will hit ...

Linux got its start in the 1990s as an alternative operating system for older PCs that didn’t have the horsepower to run newer versions of Windows. So it seems a bit ironic, but not totally surprising ...

Last week, Ubuntu announced it would end support for 32-bit applications, starting with its next release. But the decision was not well-received, especially by the gaming community, and Valve ...

In advance of the release of the AMD64 Opteron processor, we had the opportunity to test a dual-processor SMP system with a 64-bit Linux distribution. As far as most Linux users are concerned, Opteron ...