[vox] No reason not to switch

[Chris Evans]

Going 64bit will leave you out in the rain, as most multimedia apps are
still 32.
Linux needs a 32/64 layer to allow olds apps to run.



2009/1/29 Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com>

> Sorry, I was trying to be funny. The serious part of the message was
> that I still haven't switched to 64 bit, since I don't feel like dinking
> around with things that I already had working in 32 bit. I know in a
> previous post, I asked about 64 bit and it sounded like people were
> having good luck with it, but there still sounded like a couple
> annoyances. I just use VirtualBox for Win XP. It runs so great. I have
> professors at school who have some document that Open Office just
> doesn't render correctly, so I keep XP as a VM with MS Office 2007.
>
> I guess the real temptation is to see the remainder of that 4 Gigs
> installed in my laptop. I have to say I am impressed with the power of
> this Dell laptop and its Intel T7500 processor. I believe I have fired
> up five or six VMs and the machine still seems to chug along.
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:26:27PM -0800, Chris Evans wrote:
> >    I recently switched to Ubuntu intrepid 8.10, decided against a triboot
> >    w/ xp
> >    and an pleasant surprised by the capabilities on my laptop.  I
> >    recommend install a
> >    fat16 or 32 part 1st and install dos/windows 98se and mounted as a
> /dos
> >    in linux and
> >    conf dosemu to use that part. to boot off of.
> >    I still not sure if /boot should be its own partition or on the /...
> >    Be sure to be playing the  victory music, when you delete your xp in
> >    fdisk. :-)
> >
> >    On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Brian Lavender <[1]brian at brie.com>
> >    wrote:
> >
> >      So, I have been using Windows all my life, and now I have no reason
> >      not
> >      to switch to Ubuntu, except for Uncertainty, Doubt, Fear, and Taxes.
> >      I
> >      like to think of this as UDFT. It's sort of like the upcoming
> >      transition
> >      to digital TV. I used to switch over to the UHF knob, and now I have
> >      painted the letters UDFT onto it. All should be good.
> >      JK. ;-)
> >      I see native versions of Flash and the Java Plugin available for
> >      Ubuntu
> >      64 bit.
> >      [2]http://queleimporta.com/category/linux/64-bit/
> >      If you don't read spanish, the english is a little down the page.
> >      �£Si, me importa!
> >      brian
> >      --
> >      Brian Lavender
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> > References
> >
> >    1. mailto:brian at brie.com
> >    2. http://queleimporta.com/category/linux/64-bit/
> >    3. http://www.brie.com/brian/
> >    4. mailto:vox at lists.lugod.org
> >    5. http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox
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