Unlike most areas of the technology business, 64-bit computing has somehow remained immune to the forces of commodity competition. Most 64-bit systems have historically been tied to proprietary ...

Debian 13 “Trixie” has just been released with Linux 6.12 LTS, GNOME 48 desktop environment (default), GCC 14.2 compiler, and over 14100 new packages for a total of 69830 packages. This follows the ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) has announced that its Raspberry Pi OS, which is designed for its mini DIY computers, is now available in 64-bit. Until now, the operating system was only available ...

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 ...

The world's largest privately owned software company, SAS, was cofounded in 1976 by Dr James Goodnight and John Sall. They continue to run the company as CEO and Executive Vice President. Sall is also ...

Wide availability of 64-bit systems offers an opportunity to simplify programming. By leveraging large virtual addresses and memory mapped files, we combine programming and file persistence into a ...

Long-term Raspberry Pi watchers will have seen a lot of OS upgrades in their time, from the first Debian Squeeze previews through the Raspbian years to the current Raspberry Pi OS. Their latest OS ...

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 ...

If you're reading this on a PC running Windows, it's almost certainly a 64-bit version of the operating system. It also supports 32-bit applications, which is why so many old games will run on it, but ...

You're probably aware that 64-bit and 32-bit versions of your operating system exist, but apart from ascribing to a bigger-is-better philosophy, you may have no idea ...