On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:26:12PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I have a query on uname > 1)uname -i prints i386 > 2)uname -m prints i686 > whats the difference between this two and why is it printing differently -m, --machine print the machine hardware name -p, --processor print the processor type -i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>