On Tuesday 09 February 2010 06:37:38 [email protected] wrote: > > Those of you who are running 64 bit versions of Ubuntu . . are there any > > pitfalls? Any problems with applications? Speed? > > Ubuntu 64 bit, about 2 years on the computer with upgrades. Speed is > awesome. Might just because my hardware so much faster than the one > that died a natural death. > > Skype. There were some issues with this but it simply installs now. > > Flash. Flash is still buggy. If you remove all flash support and > install the beta flash player directly it works OK. Package manager > keeps moving me back to the 32 wrapper version though. Wrapper version > is 'mostly' OK.
Sorry to butt in with more ... speed (in general) is just about undetectably different 32 bit and 64 bit. 1 app using gobs of memory will do just as well on paged memory as on 64 bit (linear memory) Lots of apps or even a number using gobs of memory do much better on 64 than on 32 (paged) IMHO 64 bit flash is a great step but does not yet work. ndiswrapper is robust. I can't recall my last failure. I can recall that there have been failures, so it was on years timespan. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
