[ubuntu-za] upgrade or not

James Cuénod j3frea at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 12:47:33 GMT 2008


Thanks, in that case I'm going to seriously consider upgrading..
lol about the gaming thing, anyway I stopped gaming when I switched to linux
(well, it was probably more that they came hand-in-hand with the workload
that I had at the beginning of last year - grade 11 - so no time to worry
about games or hardware upgrades etc. - hehe, no I'm just a crazy drupaler
freak)

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:25 PM, frans <dormakorp at vodamail.co.za> wrote:

> 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,
> >
> >     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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