Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoDebian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Futurewww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down12
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minus-squareStatic_Rocket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-211 months agoLol, the nomenclature has always been a bit scuffed. Do you refer to desktop 64bit as x86_64 or amd64? (There’s history behind those…)
minus-squarespider@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months ago Debian’s choice to refer to the whole x86-32 line as i386 has always been a weird historical quirk. Indeed; there’s also this announcement from 2016.
minus-squarelukas@lemmy.haigner.melinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-211 months agoNone of the above. 64-bit, 64 bit, x86-64, 1000000 bit, amd or i772.
Lol, the nomenclature has always been a bit scuffed. Do you refer to desktop 64bit as x86_64 or amd64? (There’s history behind those…)
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Indeed; there’s also this announcement from 2016.
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None of the above. 64-bit, 64 bit, x86-64, 1000000 bit, amd or i772.