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According to http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/534 Intel initially chose not to extend their IA-32 processor family to 64 bits, preferring to promote their own but incompatible HP PA-RISC based IA-64 "Itanium" processor family !

but then Intel adopted AMD's 64-bit extensions into their IA-32 processor family, calling them "Intel 64" (aka IA-32e and EMT64). Final generation Pentium 4 & D, Celeron D, and Xeon processors and all "Core 2" based processors now include AMD compatible 64-bit extensions.

To add to the confusion https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ProcessorArch lists a few dozen Intel processors but doesn't make it clear which type a Pentium DualCore is ! Which is what my Compaq A900 notebook says it has in it !

I have 4G of RAM that I have only been able to access 3G of so far (with 4 different OS's)

Update :
It seems that my Pentium DualCore has PAE (?) support and when I install from the Xubuntu x86 (32-bit ?) CD I CAN see all 4G ! So what benefits if any would I get from using the Xubuntu 64-bit (AMD64) CD instead ?

My SONY PIII says it is:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 13
model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
cpuid level    : 2
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2

My Compaq Pentium Dual Core says it is:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 15
model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  T2390  @ 1.86GHz
cpuid level    : 10
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm

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Bizarre Google OpenSuse Chromium Chrome OS bugs

1. The Chromium Chrome Browser OS doesnt run on the Chromium Chrome OS live cd !
2. After you install to hard disk it does !
3. But then theres still a Install icon left on your desktop after you've installed !

For Thanksgiving this year, hubby and I went to visit friends in Maryland.

I got to see some Autumn leaves and we visited DC for a day.
Got to see the Library of Congress.   I think the last time I was in DC, I was 12 or 13.  Fun, very long day though...

According to http://hintofsarcasm.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/installing-chromium-on-opensuse-11/ installing the google chromium browser onto opensuse is a one click install ! Of course its zero clicks if you are already using a google opensuse chromium chrome os vm which comes with the google chromium chrome browser pre-installed !

Sun java day

Proof that Google Chromium OS is in fact OpenSuse 11.1 !

and Google Chromium OS running Google Chromium Browser !