[cfgeeks] 64 bit Linux

[Shawn McMahon]

On 6/28/07, Kevin P. Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org> wrote:
> On Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 03:03:50PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> >  uname -i is supposed to work; appears broken on Ubuntu.
>
> That's what I am using to *guess* it's 32 bit. But coreutils doesn't admit
> that's correct.
>
> # uname -i
> i386

ix86 (where x is usually 3, 5, or 6) is going to be 32-bit.  64 will
be something like (taken from an HP DL-380 G5 running RH AS 4 64-bit):

x86_64

BTW, it was $11 on my Ubuntu box.  :)