About 2 to 3 years ago, 64-bit CPUS made their foray into the desktop market. And have now become quite affordable Linux distributors were quick to come out with 64-bit versions of Linux. Today, many flavours of linux also come in 64-bit editors to make full use of the power of 64-bit computing. To the end user, this means faster computing, especially with graphics-heavy applications. When you visit the download site of the distributors, you may see a download that is available for x8664. the “64” means that the installer is for a 64-bit processor. The major distributions we have covered- Fedora, SUSE, Mandrivem, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Gentoo.
