Need Help with DVD burning and AMD64 question

[Chris Jones]

Hi

On Tue, October 26, 2004 1:33, Lord Cantenberry said:
> Secondly I have an AMD64 processor and was wondering what kind of
> speed differences there are with the 64 bit version of Ubuntu and the
> 32bit version?

Truthfully it's a bit hard to tell, so much of what a desktop does is
waiting for input from you or a disk or a network that the raw speed of
computation isn't all that important. The 64bit version should be slightly
faster, more so on things that actually do lots of maths (e.g. gimp
filters).

> I am currently running the 32bit version, mostly due
> to the fact that from what I hear there are some problems with
> application availability in the 64 bit version

There are indeed, although some things seem to work fine. Ubuntu/Debian
don't yet have as seamless 32bit compatibility as, say, Fedora, but they
are working on it.

> whether or not it is worth upgrading to the 64bit version.

I'd say it's worth it, but I don't mind breaking a few things to take
advantage of my new system ;)

> Thirdly I need some good suggestions on DVD burning and copying
> applications available for Linux in general or good ones for Gnome.

There aren't any good gnome ones. k3b seems to be pretty decent, but it
will need KDE libraries installed.

Cheers,
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Chris Jones
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