How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?

[Scott Dier]

I'm not a developer per-se but as someone who is an integrator 
(essentially) I use it every day and support a platform that runs on 
over 100 desktop amd64 machines.

Sticking points mostly are acrobat and firefox (flash, mostly), which we 
end up locally maintaining on an automounted nfs share as 32 bit 
binaries.  evince has come a long way and has mostly made acrobat not 
completely needed (I don't think evince does fill-in forms).

Otherwise things mostly run correctly for us, and our users definitely 
do want 64 bit native for the performance gains -- they make a huge 
difference at times.

Thanks,

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Scott James Remnant [2006-09-26 20:55 +0100]:
>>> Exactly how many Ubuntu developers actually use the 64bit version. 
>>>
>> Every day (this machine, in fact).
> 
> *me too*. I have used amd64 installations since I bought a new
> workstation about a year ago, and I don't even have an i386
> installation since the amd64 one just works so well and is
> considerably faster in some circumstances (e. g. some packages build
> 20% faster; I assume mainly due to the large number of registers that
> amd64 CPUs provide).
> 
> Martin
> 
> 


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