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

Gil Seiler taxes28 at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 29 10:25:36 PST 2009


I had a similar problem with 9.10.  I had it as dual boot on 3 computers, it crashed all three twice.  I put 9.04 back on and all is good, never a problem.

gil 

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> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:51:17 -0800
> From: 707mjanes at gmail.com
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: [NBLUG/talk]  64-bit Linux on the desktop?
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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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