Gerry Hull <ge...@telosity.com> writes: > > I just picked up an Lenovo X61 laptop the other day for a very good price. > This 3lb unit is a dual-core t7...@2.6ghz, 4GB Ram and 100GB disk. > > I want to run Linux as the core operating system, and use VMWare to load > Windows for my Windows work. > > I was thinking of Ubuntu 10.04. My question is should I do 32 or 64 bit? > If I go 32-bit I will not be able to use all the ram, and if I go 64-bit I > may not have all the drivers. > > What are your thoughts/recommendations?
My wife has an X61, and the amd64 release of Debian 5.0 (Lenny) works perfectly on it. If Ubuntu 10.04 works for you in general, I don't see why it should be inherently more problematic to use the 64-bit version. One of our initial favourite things about going 64-bit was that, before there was a 64-bit build of the Flash plugin available, the 32-bit plugin would run `in' the 64-bit web-browser via nspluginwrapper, which meant that Flash would actually be in a separate process--which meant that when Flash crashed, it wouldn't take the browser down with it. Unfortunately, there's now a native 64-bit Flash plugin and more recent versions of the `flashplugin-nonfree' package use that instead of using nspluginwrapper; so Flash is back to taking the browser down with it, which means that there's one less advantage to running in 64-bit mode. It'd still go with it, though. -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
