How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?

[Hervé Fache]

I thought the brand new Intel Core Duo was 32 bits?

What is more, I live in Brazil where I try to convert as many people
as I can to *Ubuntu, and you don't find 64-bit systems over here. They
would be out of people's wallet reach anyway...

Really, your speech is first world-centered (with all due respect).
32-bit systems are here for a long time still.

That is not to say that we should ignore 64-bit archs, of course!

Hervé.

On 9/20/06, Kilz _ <kilzzz at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >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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