[ubuntu-in] 32-bit version on a amd 64 system!

[Biswajit Dutta Baruah]

Dear Bryan,

Thanks for the reply. I was not aware that this has been discussed on 
this list before.

I admit that 64-bit systems are better than 32-bit systems. But 
practically speaking this is not the case. Lack of graphical drivers 
that are fully functional is a critical issue for an end-user. Maybe 
64-bit systems are incomplete on their software side, but for an 
end-user that's just a 64-bit pc. When you say 64-bit is the future, I 
presume you say so because we are hitting the 4 GB limit. Otherwise 
64-bit systems are lacking and thereby lagging behind 32-bit systems as 
far as usage goes.

By the way,  as I  mentioned earlier I hit a roadblock trying to install 
the x-86 version of jaunty on an amd 64 compaq laptop. I went ahead and 
re-installed an amd-64 version of ubuntu jaunty and everything worked 
out of the box.

Biswajit
aka orthodoc