Ubuntu amd64

[Karl Bowden]

Oh. No I only upgraded the distro. The laptop has always had 64bit
support. I was only ever running an i386 distro on it though. And I do
a fair bit of testing in VM's for work. So I felt like plunging into
x64 finally.

- Karl

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Minarwan <rodinia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Karl,
>
>  Did you mean you also change your laptop (to the one with AMD-64 processor?).
>
>  I have just upgraded my laptop from Gutsy to Hardy too (same laptop,
>  i386, but a clean install because I got myself into a problem during
>  my online upgrade therefore I had to switch my laptop off. I think the
>  problem was because I browsed around using Firefox while my laptop was
>  being upgraded and since the memory of my laptop is not much,
>  everything just froze).
>
>  Anyway, looks good so far (except losing all my data really annoys me,
>  but it was my fault). My laptop is an old Compaq Presario 700, AMD
>  Duron 900 MHz, with only about 360 MB of memory, without a battery.
>  Enough for basic use, such as listening to internet radio, reading
>  news, checking email, writing documents and so on.
>
>  It is now connected to the internet by way of Belkin Wireless USB
>  Adapter. I haven't tried to install Skype and other fancy things yet.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Min
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:14 AM, 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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