64 bit or 32 bit ubuntu

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Wed Sep 17 17:07:16 UTC 2008


2008/9/17 Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>:

> What compatibility problems do you run into? I want to run things like
> Virtualbox, and I know there were hiccups people ran into using 64 bit
> with certain applications before...didn't know what problems people are
> currently running into using that.

VirtualBox runs fine for me, including a 64-bit guest since version
2.0.0, with important issues fixed in 2.0.2.

w64codecs contains much less codecs than w32codecs. Other than that, I
haven't encountered compatibility problems with 64 bits; flash,
GoogleEarth, acroread and wine run fine.

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Marcin Kowalczyk
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