On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 22:05 +0000, Colin Law wrote: > On 14 November 2011 21:55, John Levin <technola...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... > > Thanks to everyone who replied. Does seem that uname reports the kernel, and > > not the hardware, which is what is suggested by the man page and > > http://ss64.com/bash/uname.html > > This has caused confusion to others, there was a long thread which > involved such confusions on Ubuntu Users mailing list recently. > Perhaps it would be worth filing a bug to get the man page clarified. > I suppose you could even file a patch with better wording, but I don't > know go about that.
TL;DR: it doesn't matter what is your hardware, the important it's which kernel are your running. It's not a big deal, although the words aren't 100% accurate. If you're running a 32bits kernel, it doesn't matter you have 64bits hardware. Besides that if you're running a 64bits kernel, it's probably a good idea you run the 64bits version of any application; but you can still run the 32bits version (although it may involve installing more 32bits stuff, such as shared libraries). Regards, Juan (ex-Linux 64bits user, Adobe Flash 64bits plugin hater) -- jjm's home: http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ blackshell: http://blackshell.usebox.net/ en_GB@blog: http://engbblog.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
