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Determining if your kernel and hardware is 32bit or 64bit

June 13, 2009 – 11:07 am

I’m often asked by end-users, developers, and fellow system administrators, how to determine if the installed OS is 32bit or 64bit.   I’m also asked if the hardware is capable of 64 bit, 32 bit, or both.   Here is how to tel by OS:
HPUX
# getconf KERNEL_BITS
64
This will tell you if your currently running kernel is 64 [...]

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HP Certification for Ubuntu

February 18, 2009 – 4:49 pm

According to Canonical, plans are in the works to get Ubuntu fully certified on HP hardware.
I’ve always been a fan of Hewlett-Packard and have used their Intel, PA-RISC, Alpha, and Itanium servers forever running UNIX and Linux.  On the Intel side, this has been primarily SUSE and RedHat Enterprise Linux due to official vendor support.
Working [...]

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