[ubuntu-za] upgrade or not

[frans]

I'm running 64bit hardy and it does not seem to have any problems,
performance increase according to most benchmarks are only seen when 
using 64bit software,

My opinion is that unless you are using programs that only run on 32 
bit, upgrade and see how it goes, it seem like driver issues are a thing 
of the past in any case.

Here are some links:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/363677/Benchmarks-AMD64-in-32bit-mode-vs-64bit-mode-Ubuntu

and another one

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=998&num=3

quite interesting results on the last benchmark link,  with 3d gaming 
the 32bit system wins the 64bit one...
something to consider


James Cuénod wrote:
> Thanks Raoul
> I'm not too concerned if I have to do a complete reinstall - the thing 
> that I'm concerned about is whether or not the 64bit version supports 
> a lot of software; it seems that there are frequently issues with 
> various pieces of software (e.g. ffmpeg) that only apply to the 64bit 
> versions - I wonder how much of a speed increase I'll see if I upgrade...
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Raoul Snyman 
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>     Hi James,
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>     On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:53:13 +0200, "James Cuénod"
>     <j3frea at gmail.com <mailto:j3frea at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>     > 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...
>
>     I'm currently running a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit processor, and
>     I've been
>     toying with the idea of going 64-bit. There is only one problem:
>     You need
>     to do a fresh install. I have done a fair amount of Googling, and
>     I found a
>     couple of folks who did do an upgrade, but they needed to do a
>     fair amount
>     of fiddling, and then they were not always successful. So if I do
>     go the
>     64-bit route, I'm going to rather do a complete re-install - it's
>     a safer
>     option.
>
>     Hope this helps.
>
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