the "proper" way to identify the bitness of your kernel and CPU

Gregory P. Ennis PoMec at PoMec.Net
Sat Apr 4 00:04:31 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 01:55 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> This snippet might be of interest:
> grep lm /proc/cpuinfo >/dev/null && [ `uname -m` != x86_64 ] && echo 'Your
> CPU is 64-bit-capable, you are running a 32-bit OS, why???'
> 
>         Kevin Kofler

Kevin,

That would be a good addition !!! However I have some 64-bit machines I
wish had had the 32 bit os on because there are still a some things that
I have not been able to work with adobe flash on 64 but work easily on
32.

Greg




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