Current version is 10.2.152.27. There's a preview of the 64 bit version, apparently. I've had some issues lately with Flash in Chromium on Ubuntu -- plugin crashing. Anyway, I'm pretty sure there is no 64-bit version of Skype, so if you want to use that, you should stick with 32bit. -Erik On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Adam Morris <adam.morris at redstargaming.net> wrote: > Very true. Has Adobe brought back Flash 10 for Linux yet? > -A > On Mar 6, 2011, at 13:07 , Erik Mitchell wrote: > > Flash and Skype, for example, are easier on 32 bit. > > On Mar 6, 2011 12:56 PM, "Tony Yarusso" <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:25 PM, terry houle <houletr at yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Thank you for the offer. Apologize for my dumbness as have been away from >>> this many years and a newbie back then and still am. So ask some pretty >>> dumb things as I know this is a pretty sophisticated >>> group. I have changed my mind and decided to go with Ubunto instead. >> >> To save you from embarrassment somewhere less friendly than here, note >> that it's "Ubuntu", with three Us, rather than "Ubunto". >> >>> But now a question came up with what I downloaded from Ubunto. In the >>> download I selected 64 bit from the drop down since I have a Intel P6100 >>> 2.00 g chip and Intel indicates that is a 64 bit. Yet the >>> Ubunto drop down recommended using the 32 bit. But my dilemma with that >>> 64 bit download is that is say AMD64. I am not sure what it will be if I >>> download the 32 bit as recommended. >> >> Yeah, Canonical is still recommending 32-bit for everyone on the web >> site, presumably to minimize the chances of someone less technical >> getting confused if they try to run some kind of third-party software >> that happens to be 32-bit only, as some of that still exists out >> there. >> >>> So the question is will the 64bit AMD run with my Intel chip? >>> >>> If I download the 32 bit as recommended will that be an Intel instruction >>> set and still be ok with my 64 bit chip. >> >> Certainly. (The architecture is called "amd64" basically just because >> AMD did it first - it's the same stuff for AMD and Intel now.) >> >> - Tony Yarusso >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer erik.mitchell at gmail.com erik at ekmitchell.com http://ekmitchell.com/