is 64 bit ready for primetime yet?

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Monday 04 April 2011 22:27:52 Paul Lemmons wrote:
> Paul Lemmons wrote:
> > When Natty comes out I am planning on doing a clean install. My first
> > on this particular machine since Feisty. I am considering the 64 bit
> > version. The machine has more than 4GB of ram so I have been
> > successfully running the pae version without any real hiccups.  It has
> > been a long time since I considered "real" 64 bit and was wondering
> > has it matured to the point where it is as smooth, application and
> > stability wise, as the 32 bit version? In particular: Firefox? Flash?
> > Java? VMWare Workstation?
> 
> I really appreciate the flood responses to this. If I am reading them
> all correctly I hear that 64bit is stable with the exception of flash
> which does not get high marks on the 32 bit version either. There is a
> beta version of flash that appears to be less unstable. All else sounds
> like they should work as expected.
> 
> To try things out I installed Kubuntu-64 natty beta1 in a VM. It looks
> fine. The only gotcha so far is that I can't find sun-java6. It does not
> appear in any of the repositories. I might be able to live without
> stable flash but I really need sun-java for some of the apps I have to
> use. Does anybody know if this is coming to the repo's or if there is a
> PPA for it?

Then why not install the most recent 64-bit version from Sun:

http://tinyurl.com/39na2t

Works like a charm here.

Kaj Haulrich.
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