2011/11/14 Juan J. <reid...@usebox.net>: > 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 does matter what the hardware is if you want to know whether you *could* run the 64 bit kernel. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
