Kubuntu Amd64

[Greg Booth]

On 7/23/07, uriah heep <stan10x10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>

It's getting there, maybe another year or so and we'll have all the
functionality we need. Lets hope so or we'll have tons of problems on
January 18, 2034 when unix time runs out on 32 bit systems.

Greg