[SLUG] Re:Ubuntu 64 bit install

[Michael John Drawneek]

On Tuesday 27 December 2005 21:14, Bob Garrood wrote:
> Hi
>
> By coincidence, I looked in on my niece over christmas, and her husband has
> the latest ubuntu on a 64 machine.  At least I reckon it has to be the
> latest as the gnome logo was in really tasteless new colours.  It works
> fine, though apparently some 32-bit applications don't run, and at one
> point the clock started moving at 4x the usual rate.  I will forward the
> details and see if he can help.
>
> One other distro that does a 64-bit version is Gentoo.  My experience is
> that installing is a pig, but this might not be true if you can set up a
> broadband connection and install over that.
>
> Bob

64-bit suse 9.3 been working fine on two machines for 2/3 months now, so whats 
the problem and it was a straight forward install??

jp