hello guys …i am a newbie in mikrotik and in networking …so i wanted to know what does those things in softwares page means ? like MIPSBE and SMIPS and TILE …ect ? is there some where i can find an explanation for these softwares and how to use them ?
MikroTik doesn’t just have software, it also has hardware.
The different hardware routers have different architectures. The software page has the latest software version for each architecture. That’s what the MIPSBE, SMIPS, TILE, etc. are - hardware architectures.
The one architecture you can use on a normal PC is x86. Installation instructions are in the wiki. More specifically this page, and this page, with the latter method also being one way to upgrade a hardware router too.
If you need to define software for your mikrotik, then the software you need can be defined in winbox. See screenshot
Highlighted with a red frame in the title bar
Based on the screenshot, I need software for mipsbe