Re: [Hampshire] Which desktop distro debian or ubuntu?

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Which desktop distro debian or ubuntu?

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On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 06:29:01PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 06:18:08PM +0000, Richard Green wrote:
> > Finally I was wondering if I should use a standard version of the distro
> > or the 64 bit version?
>
> 64bit version of either debian testing or Ubuntu should be
> reasonably trouble free. You will run into some problems with a few
> apps not being available for 64bit (such as openoffice I think? and
> some common webbrowser plugins) and therefore have some ugly
> workarounds. If you're prepared for that spot of bother and the
> research that you will need to get around it then sure, go 64bit.


OpenOffice.org runs happily in 64 bit now. Flash and Java plugins
for Firefox/Mozilla are the main ones that don't work.

Hugo.

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