Going 64bit will leave you out in the rain, as most multimedia apps are still 32. <br>Linux needs a 32/64 layer to allow olds apps to run. <br><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/29 Brian Lavender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@brie.com">brian@brie.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Sorry, I was trying to be funny. The serious part of the message was<br>
that I still haven't switched to 64 bit, since I don't feel like dinking<br>
around with things that I already had working in 32 bit. I know in a<br>
previous post, I asked about 64 bit and it sounded like people were<br>
having good luck with it, but there still sounded like a couple<br>
annoyances. I just use VirtualBox for Win XP. It runs so great. I have<br>
professors at school who have some document that Open Office just<br>
doesn't render correctly, so I keep XP as a VM with MS Office 2007.<br>
<br>
I guess the real temptation is to see the remainder of that 4 Gigs<br>
installed in my laptop. I have to say I am impressed with the power of<br>
this Dell laptop and its Intel T7500 processor. I believe I have fired<br>
up five or six VMs and the machine still seems to chug along.<br>
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:26:27PM -0800, Chris Evans wrote:<br>
> I recently switched to Ubuntu intrepid 8.10, decided against a triboot<br>
> w/ xp<br>
> and an pleasant surprised by the capabilities on my laptop. I<br>
> recommend install a<br>
> fat16 or 32 part 1st and install dos/windows 98se and mounted as a /dos<br>
> in linux and<br>
> conf dosemu to use that part. to boot off of.<br>
> I still not sure if /boot should be its own partition or on the /...<br>
> Be sure to be playing the victory music, when you delete your xp in<br>
> fdisk. :-)<br>
><br>
</div>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Brian Lavender <[1]<a href="mailto:brian@brie.com">brian@brie.com</a>><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> wrote:<br>
><br>
> So, I have been using Windows all my life, and now I have no reason<br>
> not<br>
> to switch to Ubuntu, except for Uncertainty, Doubt, Fear, and Taxes.<br>
> I<br>
> like to think of this as UDFT. It's sort of like the upcoming<br>
> transition<br>
> to digital TV. I used to switch over to the UHF knob, and now I have<br>
> painted the letters UDFT onto it. All should be good.<br>
> JK. ;-)<br>
> I see native versions of Flash and the Java Plugin available for<br>
> Ubuntu<br>
> 64 bit.<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">> If you don't read spanish, the english is a little down the page.<br>
> �£Si, me importa!<br>
> brian<br>
> --<br>
> Brian Lavender<br>
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