How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?

[Kilz _]

>From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com>
>To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:25:57 -0700
>
>On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 03:45:08PM -0500, Kilz _ wrote:
> > How long do you think (in time or versions)it will take for desktop 
>systems
> > to standardize on the 64bit platform seeing that few 32bit processors 
>are
> > being sold by Intel and AMD?
>
>
>On Fri, Sep 22 Matt Zimmerman wrote I'm not an industry analyst; I'm sure 
>you could find predictions based on real data which would be better than 
>any answer I can give at the moment.
>

Yes, but I'm interested in what you as a Ubuntu developer think, because 
industry analysts dont develop for Ubuntu and have very little top do with 
deciding when to give the 64bit version more attention.

> > Am I wrong in believing that a goal of Ubuntu is to get users who may 
>use
> > Windows to use Ubuntu? To make it simple for those same Windows users to
> > setup Ubuntu?
>
>On Fri, Sep 22 Matt Zimmerman You are correct.  However, that is not 
>Ubuntu's only goal (if it were,
>Ubuntu would look a lot more like Windows), and there are many 
>complementary
>ways of achieving it.
>

One of the reason I asked that is because there is a sticky in the 64bit 
section of the forums. The users have listed what is conciderd by users to 
be the key missing things. Are the developers aware of this sticky? Maybe 
multiarch isnt in the plans for a few versions yet, if at all. Is it 
possible to get those applications if we cant have multiarch? I dont really 
see newbies doing some of the things required to install some of the stuff.

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