How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?

[Kilz _]

>From: Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be>
>To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?
>Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:16:17 +0200
>
>Op ma, 18-09-2006 te 14:28 -0500, schreef Kilz _:
> > Yes I know. But I also fully expect to see it will be preinstalled on 
>64bit
> > systems. Joe sixpack isn't going to realize it until he comes home and 
>tried
> > to install his favorite pirated software. Microsoft is now in business 
>of
> > making trusted computing a reality. Giving an even greater opportunity 
>to
> > alternate operating systems. But I don't think people will warm up to
> > installing a 32bit os to replace a 64bit one.
> > Not when a 64bit os like SuSE is available. Granted its community isn't 
>the
> > greatest. But its one hell of a 64bit os. Its completely multiarch,
> > selecting a 32bit application is as easy as clicking what version to 
>install
> > in yast. Xgl is getting easier to install, by 10.2 it should be a few
> > clicks. IMHO they see that 64bit is the future.
>
>Ubuntu 64-bit works (almost) as well as Ubuntu 32-bit.  I've used it on
>my dad's 64-bit laptop before I bought my own laptop (which isn't
>64-bit, even if it's really very recent), and ubuntu amd64 worked
>perfectly fine.
>
>What you want is a multi-architecture system; running 32-bit apps on a
>64-bit OS, or vice versa (and maybe other variations).  And that
>requires changes in Debian, which won't happen until the necessary
>infrastructure work is done (someone paying for it *might* make this
>process go faster).
>
>
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The last 2 emails of mine just go to show the fact that 32bit development is 
still ongoning while there are few 32bit processors sold today. That imho 
Ubuntu will be falling behind on solving Bug#1 once Vista is released.
You must use different software if you think the present 64bit version is 
"good enough".
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=259314
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=259224
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=255015
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=219545
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186568
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=258427
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=260241
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=260523
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=258045
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=259701
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=258024

There are a lot more, I could copy and paste all day.
Yes I would love to see multiarch. Thanks for proving the point that I made 
early in this whole thing. 64bit Ubuntu is waiting on the insanly slow 
development of Debain. One of the reasons we are told to use Ubuntu is that 
we dont have to wait on the insanly slow development of Debian.
But hey, I realise everything takes time and there are priorities. Can you 
give me a date or version, maybe Edgy+8 that we will have a distro 
comparable to SuSE as it is now?
If you cant , can you tell me when we 64bit users will have a worning 
firefox+plugins(even 32bit, the 32bit version has it), Wine (the 32bit 
version has it), a media player that can accept w32codecs if the user wants 
to install them (like 32bit mplayer the 32bit version has) , Wireless 
support, etc, etc.

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