My AMD Athlon 64x2 upgrade

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristian Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
To: "Mike" <lake.wind77-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Boston LUG" <discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: My AMD Athlon 64x2 upgrade


> On 6/16/07, Mike <lake.wind77-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I recently upgraded my computer to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
>> Core architecture also. I initially tried using Ubuntu Feisty
>> 64 bit version but ran into a few minor problems with some of
>> the multimedia codecs (or lack thereof), flash plugin and the
> 
> Codecs are there, but not enabled by default due to licensing
> restrictions.  However, all the codecs are available from official
> repositories by going to System -> Administration -> Software Sources
> (or editing your APT sources manually).  However, you won't need any
> codecs should you choose to utilize VLC of course :-)
> 
>> fact that there is no 64 bit version of Thunderbird 2.0
>> available (more of an annoyance really, not a problem). So at
>> this point I'm back to running the 32 bit version of Ubuntu
>> Feisty 7.04 and I'm happy with that for the time being.
> 
> Thunderbird 2.0 is included in Ubuntu Gutsy, not Feisty, since it was
> still beta on release date.  You could always install from source,
> grab a backport, or find someone's pre-packaged AMD64 DEB if you
> really can't wait.  You have the power...
> 
>> I'm interested in finding out if you were able to get the
>> multimedia codecs and plugins working properly with the 64 bit
>> version of Firefox. Also, does the latest shockwave flash
>> plugin work properly? If so I may give it another try.
> 
> Yes.  You can either go through the nspluginwrapper setup manually, or
> grab this script to install Flash for you on AMD64 Feisty:
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~ubuntume/nsplugin-wrapper-install-0-1.1.tar.gz
> 
> Of course, the only thing that does not work is the Sun Java plugin.
> I have heard that a 64-bit native version will be out by year's end.
> So, again, AMD64 is not as unusable as you think -- you just have to
> work a little bit harder when dealing with closed sources :-)  I run
> AMD64 Ubuntu Gutsy right now...
> -- 
> Kristian Hermansen
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