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Possible Duplicate: What do the flags in /proc/cpuinfo mean? I tried installing CentOS 6.3 on my computer only to see a complaint that my computer doesn't have PAE. I am not sure if my computer ...

How can I find out that my CPU supports 64bit operating systems under Linux, e.g.: Ubuntu, Fedora?

I'm confused. Running Fedora Linux, lscpu yields: Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit ... But when I try to install a 64-bit program (Chrome) I get error like: ...

On a Debian Stretch and testing/Buster system with a current kernel and installed microcode I still see meltdown and spectre listed as bugs in /proc/cpuinfo. However, running the spectre-meltdown-...

According to tests the Mac Mini 3,1 CPU is 64-bit (grep -q "^flags.*\blm\b" /proc/cpuinfo) and supports Intel virtualization extensions (grep -q "^flags.*\bvmx\b" /proc/cpuinfo). However, after ...

Does Arch Linux work on my i386 cpu. I read on its website that it's optimized for i686, does it mean Arch Linux won't work on i386. By the way, I don't want to compile it, I want to use the ...

We can examine /proc/cpuinfo on Intel and ARM machines to learn cpu features, like AES and SHA. I need to do the same for PowerPC under both AIX and Linux. Testing with Linux is shown below. The ...

I'm looking for a linux tool similar to a cpuid dumper but with a capability to read all of a processor's possible model-specific registers's and outputting them. Does such a tool exist? I'm hoping ...

I need to find out in my script if a (potentially legacy) CPU supports dynamic speed setting, and eventually get value of maximum and current speed. What makes it more complicated is that I need to ...

CentOS 6.9 showed the following CPU flags in /proc/cpuinfo: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm ...