Kubuntu Amd64

[uriah heep]

On 7/23/07, FX Fraipont <fxfrpt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greg Booth wrote:
> > On 7/23/07, Neil Winchurst <neil at holsdev.vispa.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I see that Feisty is available as a version for AMD64 bit. Has anyone
> >> any experience with this please? Any advice gratefully received.
> >>
> >> Neil Winchurst
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Don't do it man ! There's such a limit on software it's not even
> > funny. Firefox barely works, flash is out the window... You can get
> > around the issues by having a separate parallel install of i386 for
> > binaries but it sounds awful funky to me, tried it once and switched
> > it out about 30 minutes after I installed.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> I share your opinion. I got flash to work, but Acroread remains elusive,
> and I absolutely need it for my work. So I'm going to wipe out Feisty 64
> and replace it with Feisty 32.
>
> Google around, and you'll see there's not much difference in terms of
> performance apparently.
>
> Of course, you do get this extra kick with 64bit .... but you don't have
> to tell anyone what is really under the bonnet :-)
>
> fx
>
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Same problems here.  I moved from Suse where you could run 32 bit under the
64 bit OS but found out in a hurry there was lots I could not do in 64 bit
Fiesty.  I thought it was just because I was a noob but that proved not to
be true.
uriah
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