Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

"Ken D'Ambrosio" <ken at jots.org> writes:
>
> Brian: I'm gonna pull the whole repo.  I really like btrfs, and anything
> pre-10.10 isn't recent enough to support it for an installation.  And I ain't
> doing 12.04 because, well, it ain't the epitome of the Linux user experience.
> ;-)

Ken,

Have you considered upgrading to Debian 6.0/Squeeze? It really sounds
more like what you want...:

    http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205a

I use the same Compiz/GNOME setup as you're describing. I don't use btrfs,
but it looks like it went into this release.

-- 
"Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."


> On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:29:23 -0400 "Michael ODonnell"
> <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote
> 
> > BTW, for recent kernel sources I think the value you wanted to
> > use for ARCH is i686 rather than i386, even though the latter
> > may be what the "arch" command reports.
> 
> Well... here's my /usr/src/linux/arch directory:
> 
> alpha     c6x    hexagon  m68k        openrisc  score  um         xtensa
> arm       cris   ia64     microblaze  parisc    sh     unicore32
> avr32     frv    Kconfig  mips        powerpc   sparc  x86
> blackfin  h8300  m32r     mn10300     s390      tile   x86_64
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?  Did I not need to name my destination
> architecture something from that directory?
> 
> -Ken