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    When one go's out to look at all the different versions of Linux/Unix and a multitude of other operating systems available to him/her they come across massive amounts of information. I am asking anyone if they might know of a good book, tutorial, or just off the top of there head the differences, similarities, or just a basic informative guide to choosing which version & platform to choose from. You have plenty to choose from for example: alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64 and this list is only getting started.
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    Certain architectures are built for certain things and are therefore specialist and not practical for use outside of their specific field. I would suggest using wikipedia to get a quick run down of what each might entail.

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    The architectures are essentially what sort of chip your computer runs.

    The ones you probably care about are:

    i386, i486, i586, i686, x86: Your basic modern-day chip. If you don't know what chip you have, you have this one.

    amd64: One of the AMD 64-bit chips. An AMD 32-bit chip is x86.

    ppc: The Apple PowerPC

    sparc: This is a Sun machine.
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