{"id":503,"date":"2007-03-29T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T22:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/29\/which-ubuntu-for-a-core-2-duo"},"modified":"2007-05-22T03:27:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T08:27:04","slug":"which-ubuntu-for-a-core-2-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/29\/which-ubuntu-for-a-core-2-duo","title":{"rendered":"Which Ubuntu for a Core 2 Duo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Interweb,<\/p>\n<p>A tiny issue plagues me. With everyone&#8217;s favourite Linux distribution of choice, Ubuntu. I&#8217;m looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/au.releases.ubuntu.com\/7.04\/\">Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta<\/a> and for the life of me, can&#8217;t decide which to install on a Core 2 Duo machine (this was no better with Ubuntu 6.10 &#8211; and I&#8217;ve got both the amd64 and i386 ISOs sitting here). Its not AMD64, and its not 32-bit, so what are my choices? Referencing a post with regards to <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=279721\">System76 support<\/a>, it looks like I might have to go with a 32-bit install disc?<\/p>\n<p>If I do have to go with the 32-bit install disc, why is that so? I mean, with Fedora, I&#8217;m quite happily running x86_64.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the wiki documentation on <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Core_2_Duo_Support\">Core 2 Duo Support<\/a>, though maybe its a little dated. This is a very important question to answer, because I can imagine a lot of new laptops are actually, Core 2 Duo based (as probably are a lot of new desktops).<\/p>\n<p>Also, a little bit of disappointment, but Ubuntu 7.04 has support for SPARC and not PowerPC. In a time when it might be opportune for third-world countries to start having Ubuntu-running Macs on their desktop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/core%202%20duo\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">core 2 duo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/feisty%20fawn\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">feisty fawn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/edgy%20eft\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">edgy eft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/powerpc\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">powerpc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: I have concluded that the 64-bit Feisty Fawn is good for a Core 2 Duo. Read, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/22\/today-i-am-a-virgin\">Today I am a virgin<\/a> and see how I solve my 32-bit application requirement problems, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/07\/skype-on-64-bit-ubuntu-feisty-fawn-via-i386-chroot-and-gizmo-project-too\">Skype on 64-bit Ubuntu Feisty Fawn via i386 chroot (and Gizmo Project too)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Interweb, A tiny issue plagues me. With everyone&#8217;s favourite Linux distribution of choice, Ubuntu. I&#8217;m looking at the Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta and for the life of me, can&#8217;t decide which to install on a Core 2 Duo machine (this was no better with Ubuntu 6.10 &#8211; and I&#8217;ve got both the amd64 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-87","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}