If you want easy, and I mean easy, to set up and run Linux servers on the cloud, you can't beat TurnKey Linux. The latest version of Turnkey Linux, TurnKey 12.1 is now offering 64-bit Linux ...

Linux got its start in the 1990s as an alternative operating system for older PCs that didn’t have the horsepower to run newer versions of Windows. So it seems a bit ironic, but not totally surprising ...

Most desktop and laptop computers from the past two decades use 64-bit x86 processors, but older 32-bit x86 CPUs (also known as i386 or i686) are still around. Even though Windows and many Linux ...

The chipmaker's lab tests show that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young OS. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Officially, Intel’s Itanium chips and their IA-64 architecture died back in 2021, when the company shipped its last processors. But failed technology often dies a million little deaths. To name just a ...

Google announced that it will drop support for 32-bit version of Linux, Debian 7 (Wheezy) and Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise). In a Chromium-dev group post on Tuesday, Dec. 1, Google software engineer Dirk ...

AMD and Intel released the first 64-bit CPUs for consumers back in 2003 and 2004. Now, more than a decade later, Linux distributions are looking at winding down support for 32-bit hardware. Google ...

At first glance, Canonical dropping support for 32-bit Ubuntu Linux libraries looked to be interesting -- the end of an era -- but of no real importance. Then, Canonical announced that, beginning with ...

If you purchased your computer in the last decade, it probably has a 64-bit-capable processor. The transition to 64-bit operating systems has been a long one, but Google is about to give Linux users ...