Re: [Trisquel-users] Advice for Setting up GNU/Linux on a Second-Hand Gaming Rig

[onpon4]

> * uname -m, run from a terminal inside the LiveCD, tells me that my system  
is "i686". I just want to check that this is checking my hardware, not the  
Linux kernel running off the CD. In other words, if I was using a liveCD made  
from a 64-bit version of Trisquel, would I get different results?

uname -m only reports the architecture the kernel is built for, if I'm not  
mistaken. IA-32 CPUs haven't been produced in years. I can't find a specific  
date for when the last IA-32 CPU was manufactured, but just to give an idea,  
the first x86-64 processor was released in 2003, and Intel's first x86-64  
processor was released in 2004. So if your system actually were 32-bit, it  
probably wouldn't be any good for gaming at this point.