[Novalug] 64 or 32

[Jeff Stoner]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Michael Hans wrote:

> Question: Is Ubuntu 64bit there yet? haha, open-ended I know, but really are
> devices being supported, has anyone transitioned in this fashion and found

For ${WORK} we've been using 64-bit Red Hat for a couple years now,
especially on databases (Oracle and MySQL.) If a client wants 32-bit, we 
ask them for justification.

At ${HOME}, when I wanted to try Ubuntu, I went straight to 64-bit. I
started with 7.04 and upgraded all the way to 8.04 (2 major releases.) The 
only issues I had were Flash. Ubuntu offers Adobe Flash 9 but it's 32-bit 
and requires nsplugingwrap. I wasn't going to install a 32- and 64-bit 
version of Firefox.

When Adobe released a 64-bit Flash, I ripped out the Ubuntu version and 
installed Adobe's Flash. Been working just dandy.

Since my desktop is less than 3 feet from my router, I don't bother with 
wireless cards. All USB-based devices work to some degree. USB disks and 
thumbdrives work as advertised. My USB webcam works with some applications 
but not all - I don't particularly care why. My USB scanner worked the 
last time I used it.

I upgraded my video card to an nVidia GeForce 6000 series card. Worked 
great. I dropped the community nVidia driver in favor of the driver from 
nVidia. The only issue I have with that is when I upgrade my kernel (which 
seems to happen a couple times a month - and they're mostly just ABI 
bumps - sheesh) I have to boot into rescue mode, drop to a root prompt and 
re-run nVidia's installer to make sure the kernel module gets compiled and 
installed correctly.


--Jeff

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