kubuntu 8.10 amd 64b

[Brian Norman Wootton]

>
> Setting up flash on a 64 bit system is tedious and requires the use of 32
> > bit browsers which in turn is also a tedious process.
> >
> > Also unless you will be working with really large numbers and large
> > calculations you probably will not see any benefit with the 64 bit.
> >
> > IMHO, the process involved to get 64 bit running smoothing to gain some
> > extra computations the average user will probably never use, isn't worth
> > the hassle.
>   

Actually, Adobe have an Alpha version of Flash for 64bit Linux here: 
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

I have a 64 bit amd processor, so I downloaded the kubuntu 8.10 64bit
iso, md5sum checked it, burned a CD and installed it, the only trouble
I had with it was getting the nvidia..... 177 package to run, it kept
getting so far thru' the boot sequence and then giving me the blank
screen. I fixed that with a new nvidia.conf. Now, of course, my screen
goes blank if I click on K>system settings>display, so I keep the cursor
well away from that icon, don't even dare to try and delete it.
 I play on-line bridge which needs a flash player so one of the 1st things
I did was install flashplayer10.
 Apart from the Adept/Synaptic area, I find this kubuntu far easier to
use than Mandriva - and as for Vista, well I rarely even turn the Vista
laptop on these days, it's too slow and I never know what it's doing behind
my back. So three cheers for kubuntu.
brian