On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 21:59 +1100, david wrote: > Just (this week) moved from 32 (old machine that dies) to 64 Ubuntu. Not > one single glitch due to 64bit. That may have been pure luck, but I've > got quite a lot of stuff installed.
Well, not to be underestimated is that people have worked hard over the last 5 years to make Linux and their applications run well on 64 bit. Sure, there were many glitches early on. That's porting for you. But lots of hackers and early adopters (as they then were) put the hard work in, and now, many years on things work great. That's our luck. Yeay open source, etc. [my recent experience along these lines was taking the 5 month old (amd64) LiveUSB stick with the Ubuntu Karmic release on it to a store and being able to boot Linux on a laptop I was considering - zero problems, brand spanking new hardware. I was impressed. Very impressed. We've all come a long way] Anyway, this comes up on the SLUG list fairly frequently. I think the consensus is clearly established that 32 vs 64 bit is well and truly past the point of being something we need to worry about. AfC Sydney
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