seen on theinquirer.net: "Ubuntu for AMD64 not 'there' yet "

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:25:25PM +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 
> >"Ubuntu for AMD64 not 'there' yet"
> >http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28635
> >
> >Since I have never tried the AMD64 Ubuntu port, I'm thus not in
> >position to comment on the article :)
> >  
> >
> It's a good report because it describes the issues he had in enough
> detail for us to be able to do something about them. I've cc'd some of
> the core developers who touch the parts he mentions. Some of the issues
> are because he is trying to install external software on Breezy that was
> not compiled for it - acrobat, mozilla and nero. In those cases I
> imagine we are close to being a standard target build for those
> companies that the problems will disappear, though we may need to go a
> little bit further to convince them to do amd64 and ppc builds too.
> 
> The hotplug USB 2.0 drive concerns me, it should have worked out of the
> box. Pitti, could you contact the author and see if you can resolve that
> one?

Indeed, that's the only problem he describes which actually pertains to
Ubuntu itself.  All of his other issues seem to involve installing
third-party programs.

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 - mdz