Ubuntu amd64

egeland at gmail.com egeland at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 10:32:48 BST 2008


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Hey Karl,

That's great to hear - I'll do the same upgrade on my desktop, and
hope my experience is as good as yours!

Looking forward to being able to harness the 64bit goodness of my AMD
Phenom.. :D

Cheers,
Frode
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On 4/4/08, Karl Bowden <karlbowden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> Just a quick note for those interested, I upgraded my laptop from
> gutsy-i386 to hardy-amd64 (clean install).
> Firefox brings up a plugin search box on a flash supporting page and
> installs flash rather easily.
> I have not tested java support in firefox.
> skype needed a ignore tag from memory when installing the deb, but
> runs great. vmware amd64 runs great too.
> And acidrip times have mildly improved.
> Nvidia video driver was as easy as going to the restricted drivers box
> and enabling it. Wine work as normal too.
>
> So far, really happy. 4gb of ram in the laptop really helps with a few
> vm's open too.
>
> - Karl
>
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