[CALUG] 64 bit OS

[Dan Deighton]

Russ,

I've had good luck with the 64-bit version of Fedora 6.  The 64-bit
version of Ubuntu gave me quite a few problems on 2 different machines.
Things just wouldn't work.  It was strange.  

Regardless of which distro you choose, watch out for Add-ons with 64-bit
firefox.  Many don't work or require extra effort to get them to work.
I ended up using 32-bit firefox on my 64-bit machines.  This is not a
problem, since you can have the 32-bit libraries installed alongside the
64-bit libraries.

Accessing your shares using Samba should be fairly straightforward.
There is a lot of good documentation out there.  To get started, check
out smbmount
(http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbmount.8.html) and
smbclient
(http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbclient.1.html)

Both nautilus and konqueror will give you access via a GUI.

 -Dan

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 12:31 -0400, Russ wrote:
> Calug,
> 
> Thanks for all the input.  Originally I wanted to dual boot Windoze, but I
> find that my Seagate Barracuda's (ST3250824AV and ST3160) are not on the
> HCL for XP Pro. I'm not sure if their on the HCL for Vista, but I'm told
> probably not.  So, I'm pretty fed up with Windoze, and I was considering a
> full switch to Linux and maybe using something like Samba to access my old
> files on the old XP Pro system. Note: I know very little about Samba
> 
> thanks
> 
> Russ
> 
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Eldon Ziegler wrote:
> 
> > I have a 64 bit machine I've been running Fedora 7 on for some time. At
> > first, Google Earth wouldn't run but that has been fixed now. I'm
> > running a pretty standard install with Apache, PHP 5 and MySQL 5.
> > 
> > Eldon Ziegler
> > 
> > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 11:02 -0400, Russ wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I just built a 64 bit machine, and I'm looking for a good OS to run on
> > > the beast. Any suggestions, or experiences are appreciated.  Should I
> > > stick to running it as a 32 bit machine for a year or two instead?  If you
> > > would like hardware specifics please let me know.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sincerely,
> > > 
> > > Russ Main
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Russ Main
> 
> 
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