As I said, I have been using the 64-bit versions of 8.10 and 9.04 with so much as a blip. I had previously used the 32-bit versions because I use lots of multimedia and could not get Quicktime or Realaudio to act nicely. Now, I am totally happy. Everything works including Flash, Realaudio and Quicktime.
I use lots of distros. I run about a dozen at a time. I always keep one as my main distro and the rest are my sandbox. I mainly run the 32-bit versions simply because I want to give them the best opportunity to put their best foot forward, so to speak. I am not loyal to Ubuntu when it comes to being my main distro. I want to one that works the best and I will switch at the drop of a hat. Distros in my sandbox include: Fedora 10, Sidux, Mepis 8, Mandriva 2008, PCLOS, Sabayon, Elive, Opengeu, and the aforementioned 9.04. Some distros are installed in box 32 qand 64 bit versions. I run every possible desktop and bit of eye candy. Noticeable in their absence are SUSE and Debian. Debian because I have not got around to it and SUSE because I have a few problems with Novell philosophically in the way that they rolled over for Microsoft. I also have a eeePC with eeeBuntu based on Intrepid and with Xandros that came pre-installed. I don't use Xandros for the same reason that I am put off by Novell. I will get over it, but when I have so much choice, why bother? I love having lots of choice. I really don't want everybody to migrate to one distro or the choice dries up. So, I am not giving spin. What works for one person may not work for another. On your hardware, 64-bit Ubuntu could be a problem. I am active on several forums including three or four Ubuntu specific ones and have not seen the kind of problems that you speak of. If they exist, they are scattered and therefore meaningless statistically. I hope that you find what you are looking for and it would be nice to hear you report back what you went with in the end. Cheers, Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and ... free! 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They just released > > Lenny which is based on stable. I would suggest that MEPIS might be a > > good fit. It uses Debian, but supports a newer kernel and it still > > uses Synaptic. If you are going to move to RPM, try Mandriva. Fedora > > is like Ubuntu. It is more bleeding edge and package kit is just plain > > bad. Avoid Fedora if you crave stability. Likewise with openSUSE, IMO. > > Their method of resolving dependency problems leads novices into > > making poor decisions that result in instability. > > > > SuSE has always been a hate-hate-forced relationship with me. KDE on > SuSE is incredibly well done. RPM Hell and YAST kind of ruin the > entire experience though. I won't look at an RPM distro other than > SuSE though. If I _have_ to deal with RPM Hell I want to deal with it > on a version that has a lot of _paid_ developers. No other RPM distro > has the number of paid developers SuSE has. > > Red Hat is something to avoid for the following reasons: > 1) They hired the guy who added what passed for clustering to Tru/64 > to do the same thing for them. > 2) Oracle is now undercutting Red Hat on support contract pricing > 3) Oracle has taken a source release of the Red Hat server edition > and is creating their own server fork. That is why you now hear them > talk of "Grid Computing" instead of "Clustering". OpenVMS from DEC > (now HP) is still the first and only OS to do clustering correctly. > Tru/64's implementation of clustering was pathetic and they had access > to _all_ of the clustering source code in use at DEC. Clustering > requires that the Unix kernel basically be re-written to OpenVMS. > While I'm all for that, the 3-5 year learning curve required by two > corporations involved in a p*ssing contest is going to leave a lot of > people in the lurch. Any remaining "desktop edition" will be wildly > forked away from the server edition. > > I don't make the decision to move to a new desktop lightly. > Conversion is a 4 day effort on my part and just for my primary > workstation. I can't place myself at the mercy of releases which are > so poorly tested. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
