Hi Folks Just thought you might be interested in my latest Ubuntu exploits.
After the my upgrade from 8-10 to 9-04 and adding/deleting packages to try out. The system and home files were increasing in size dramatically, as their obviously were some redundant files that should have been removed but were still there! So this was now a good excuse to try out the 64 bit version of Ubuntu and compare it against the 35 bit version, he! he! I manually reformatted my system and swap partitions ONLY, and Bingo I had a 64 bit operating system which moves along rather fast and did benchmarked better than than the 32 bit system. On the negative side I lost my printer as at the moment I've not found a 64 bit driver for it.(not Ubuntu's fault) I also lost a couple of 32 bit programs that are not in the repository. as Repository 32 bit programs work well. Also my 00o 3.1 didn't work in the 64 bit environment. Now using the default 3.0.1 version. The answer to running a non repository program was to use: sudo dpkg -i - - force 'architecture filename.deb' All in all I am a happy Penguin, Paul _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
