[NBLUG/talk] 64-bit Linux on the desktop?

Mark Janes 707mjanes at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 14:51:17 PST 2009


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Lincoln,

I've been running a 64-bit desktop I put together, and running SuSE on
it for a couple of years now, and I'm writing this on a Dell Inspiron
1545 which had Ubuntu 8.10 preinstalled (I upgraded it to 9.04 right
after I got it and it went from Working Really Well to Working Even
Better), and I even had Kubuntu running on it. It was a thing of
beauty: all the bells and whistles of KDE on a machine with enough
resources to make it all work smoothly. Even my partner's Mac began to
look a bit less polished. However,  when I upgraded to 9.10 it broke a
lot of things, and I returned to 9.04, and have had flawless operation
since. From what I've been able to determine, this is an issue largely
related to Dell laptops (the proprietary Broadcom module is
particularly problematic) and may not affect you. If I were you,
though, I'd try to get a copy of 9.04 burned in addition to the 9.10
available at Ubuntu. But overall, almost all  Linux apps are either
written for 64-bit architecture or compatible with it. Definitely use
the 64-bit version(s).

Mark Janes
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