Question about AMD64 and 64 bit installation

[Albin Blaschka]

BBBB schrieb:
> I have read about several problems with programs that are not compatible
> with the 64bit version of Ubuntu.
> Is it the AMD64 chip, or is it the 64bit OS that is the problem?
> Could I just install the 32 bit version on an AMD 64 system?
> If so, would I use the i386 version?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bradley
> 
> 
> 
Hello,

I have installed Kubuntu last week on an AMD64 with a SATA Drive and 
Dual-Boot WinXP  and it works (except wine). I am on a Windows Network 
(it is my workplace), I have configured the network printers without 
problems (via smb and my Windows-Account and the tools provided by KDE), 
I access the Exchange Server via IMAP and Thunderbird, but I use another 
(private) SMTP-Server - but that's more a problem of our administrator 
here...

So a short summary of intensively tested applications during the last week:
* Openoffice2 works
* Printing works
* Firefox and Thunderbird are fine, too
* Quanta goess well

:-)

So I think if you are happy with components which are coming with 
Ubuntu, it should be no problem...as far as my experience goes. 
Compiling /using third party programms could be a problem, if they are 
not 64bit-ready, but that's more ore less a problem of the programmer...
I have experience in compiling from source, but did not try it out yet 
here on the AMD64...


HTH,
Albin