[ubuntu-za] upgrade or not

[James Cuénod]

I would like to upgrade at some point - I have a question though - I'm
running 32bit Hardy, is it possible to upgrade to 64bit Intrepid? Also, is
64bit better or worse because it seems that a lot of software is not really
64bit friendly...

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Vijay Makanjee <vijay at ergo.co.za> wrote:

> Well I took the plunge.
>
> It took me more than 3 hours to update my desktop to intrepid.
> Part of the problem was that there was a small power failure in the
> midst of the update.
>
> This meant that the update got screwed up. What seemed to happen was
> that the update programme found which files needed to be updated -
> deleted these and started the updates and then bam - eskom or my
> municipality or some nut or bolt in the system - the power went down for
> a few minutes.
>
> When I got booted up again, the system was somewhat screwed up. Lost
> almost all my old settings and the update then just loaded a basic set.
> Found that the kernel did not update and some things were messed up in
> the settings - like the nvidia card, grub, login screens, firefox etc.
>
> no matter, I got the intrepid kernel and then manually loaded that and
> some of the missing programs. Works fine now.
> Seems a bit faster than hardy... but the specs are very different on the
> hardware between my laptop - production machine and the desktop - in
> between server for apt-cacher ng, testing and general backup pc
>
> running 32bit intrepid
>
> desktop Hardware info.
> self built old pentium4 type 2.4ghz
> 1gb ram
> old compaq mv540 screen
> nvidia card - geforce 6600GT
>
>
> Vijay Makanjee
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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ
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