On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Adam Romines <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a reason that the torrent links for 64 bit systems on /getxubuntu > are for AMD processors? Wouldn't the i386 .iso be more applicable for a > majority of users?
Since the 64-bit standard was developed by AMD and later adopted by Intel, it's just convention to call it "AMD64," when it really means "the 64-bit standard for Intel and AMD processors." Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.dailynews.com/click [email protected] [email protected] -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
