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Ubuntu

I'm almost windows free. My wife is completely working off windows and she doesn't even notice it.
 
I was windows-free for a long time, but then I needed office, so I was back on Windows for a while. I tried using Open Office a few minutes ago and was disgusted.

I am running 32-bit Ubuntu on a 64-bit machine because no one has ever explained the advantages of using 64-bit to me. The downsides are enormous (like, everything is prone to crashing, and many drivers and some software are not supported). Also, I have 64-bit windows XP, which breaks in the most hilarious ways (I can't install home-built R packages because this version of Windows treats command line arguments inconsistently!)

Andy, you have too many dots in your versions. It's 9.04 because it's "April 2009". :)
 
I'm pulling my Thinkpad T2400 CPU out and replacing it with a Core 2 Duo T7400 so I'm eyeballing everything 64 bit.
Was looking at the 64 bit ubuntu Do It At Your Own Risk thread yesterday and I think I'll sit on the sideline for a while.
[ubuntu] Advantages and Disadvantages of 64bit. (Plus install Guides) - Ubuntu Forums

I have Windows 7 64-bit and MS SQL 2008 Server 64 bit waiting to be tried. From all account, neither MS or the open source camp has much success in providing a convincing 64-bit experience.

Virtualization software like VMWare has becoming very attractive these days. It's one of the reasons I upgrade my CPU to 64 bit to be able to run everything under one host machine.

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doug reich said:
Andy, you have too many dots in your versions. It's 9.04 because it's "April 2009". :)
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People definitely use it interchangeably (try google ubuntu 9.0.4) but it's good to know the real meaning of the version number. I always assume they follow the version number formatting.
 
I run the 9.04 64bit as my host system on both desktop and laptop. I run a 32bit xp vbox guest for those rare programs that were never ported to 64bit and I have a win7-64bit vbox guest for office. Like in Doug's case, I can't rely on open office for anything more serious than a simple spread sheet.

I haven't had any trouble with crashing or drivers not working, but then again my desktop is fairly new (I don't think anything is older than a a year since release in it) and I chose my laptop specifically to transfer to the 64bit systems at some point.

The only little bit of trouble I had was the first time I installed a kernel update and had to figure out how to install nvidia drivers from console.
 
Do you use a T400, Eugene? Is your chipset able to see full 4GB ram in 64 bit OS?
I have my T60 since 2006 and it's been extremely reliable (knock on wood) so I keep updating it instead of buying a new one. The Thinkpad series has one of the best support community so much of the problem can be solved by googling.
I have a new 320GB drive as main so it should accommodate the 100GB SQL server I run on it.
I think I'll host XP and guest 64 bit Ubuntu and Windows 7.
 
Wirelessly posted

My laptop is an x61, I forget the exact chipset. It can see all of my memory.
 
Sound volume now changes smoothly! Unbelievable
 
Hi,

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 for 64bit in my intel dual-core laptop along with windows xp (because some stupid South Korean web applications requires Internet Explorer only).

One simple but amazing thing is that I can see my Windows partition from Ubuntu OS. So I can access any file at that partition. You know that the other way is not possible.

I am now installing Eclipse with CDT, PTP, RSE, RDT.. to make high-performance computing environment. Always hard.
 
Can I run this on a Mac? How are the C++ compilers? I'm just trying to decide what Laptop to get for school. I'd like to have a Mac as I use music hardware (Protools HD etc), but I couldn't find too much info on how much coding trouble I would be getting into.
 
If you are using a mac just stick with OS X as it's unix based and xcode is a really good all around IDE.
 
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