Good Linux Books for Beginners

[David Munson]

That's perfect, thank you so much.

On 9/3/07, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 19:18 -0700, David Munson wrote:
> > So it's "--help", not just "help". That explains a lot about why doing
> > that gave such weird results.
> >
> > I've read a lot about problems where images burned at high speeds
> > don't work properly, or not at all.
> >
> > In the vein of architectures and images, (i386 vs x86_64), I tried
> > looking up the differences (if any) between x86 and x86_64... as far
> > as I can tell, it supports x64 where available, but goes to x86 if
> > not, but not all processors (esp. older procs) will support x86_64. Is
> > this correct?
> >
> > Also, what are the differences between i386 and x86? This processor
> > architecture stuff I'm finding via Google is either so simple it
> > doesn't really help, or so complex I can't understand it.
> >
> > I'm still searching, but if anyone else knows, I'd appreciate the help.
> >
> ----
> according to the guide on Fedora 7...
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/sn-which-arch.html
>
> Processor Manufacturer and Model                         Architecture
> -------------------------------------------------------- ------------
> Intel (except Core 2 Duo, Centrino Core 2 Duo, or Xeon),
> AMD (except 64 or x2 dual-core), VIA C4, Apple MacBook Pro      i386
>
> Intel Core 2 Duo, Centrino Core 2 Duo, and Xeon;
> AMD Athlon64/x2, Sempron64/x2, Duron64                        x86_64
>
> x86_64 tends to make it more difficult to use 32 bit only binary stuff
> like Adobe Reader (the plugin) or Flash Plugin, and the 64 bit version
> of Sun Java apparently still doesn't have a workable applet runner and
> what I've gone to is to use the 'nspluginviewer' which allows you to use
> 32 bit plugins on a 64 bit browser.
>
> Craig
>
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