Kubuntu Amd64

Andrew Jarrett jarrett.andrew at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 12:59:06 UTC 2007


On 7/24/07, FX Fraipont <fxfrpt at gmail.com> wrote:
> manchicken wrote:
> > On Monday 23 July 2007 15:33:34 Neil Winchurst 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
> >>
> >
> > I've been using amd64 builds of Kubuntu for some time now.  They work fine for
> > me.  The only trouble you have is with non-free garbage, and that's easily
> > worked out with the ia32-libs package.  I've got Firefox installed in both a
> > 64 and 32-bit version, so I can run Flash and Java plugins for Firefox32.
> > I've never used Acroread (with kpdf, I see no point in running such filth),
> > so I can't speak to that.
> This is plain ridiculous.
>
> I get my bank statements in pdf form.
> 1. With kpdf or ghostscript, the only thing you can do is print the
> file, there is no save option.
> 2. With kpdf or ghostscript there is no possibility of searching the
> pdf, which is absolutely vital for me professionaly.
>
> I've been using various types of linux distros for the years exclusively
> for 10 years, but it's childish to call every commercial software
> "filth", particularly when it provides indispensable functionality for you.
>
> And remember Adobe gives Acrobat Reader for free, you don't even have to
> pay for it.
>
> fx

... Dontcha know by now, boy, that thems fightin wurds 'round hur?

Andrew

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