[CALUG] 64 bit OS

[loxety]

I've been running 64bit Ubuntu on a Pentium D based system for some
time and have and no hardware issues.  Be sure to install the ia32libs
if you want to run 32bit apps though.

On 8/22/07, Dave Dodge <dododge at dododge.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:48:21PM -0400, Dan Deighton wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I've been using 64-bit Ubuntu (actually Xubuntu) for the past year and
> a half with reasonable results.  Some hardware can be really finicky
> about kernel versions or have other compatibility issues; for example
> when I built the system it was a pretty bleeding-edge motherboard and
> the Maxtor drive I bought for the machine had firmware bugs that made
> it unreliable to use with the motherboard's SATA chipset.
>
> > 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.
>
> Right, with a 64-bit Firefox some binary plugins won't load.  There is
> no working Flash plugin, for example.  There is supposedly some sort
> of plugin wrapper available which bridges 32-bit plugins into a 64-bit
> Firefox, but I've never tried it.
>
> > I ended up using 32-bit firefox on my 64-bit machines.
>
> This is one place where Ubuntu becomes difficult, because they don't
> provide 32-bit builds of applications in their 64-bit repositories.
> You can always get 32-bit applications elsewhere or compile them
> yourself, but another thing to watch out for is that Ubuntu's provided
> development tools (such as gcc) only generate 64-bit output.
>
> You'll have similar problems to the above with media players if you
> want to use binary Windows codecs.  I used to keep a 32-bit Xine handy
> for this reason, but it now natively supports most of the formats I
> care about so a 64-bit build has been working for me lately.
>
>                                                  -Dave Dodge
>
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