Ubuntu 9 64bit?

[darylp]

Will Ubuntu 9 be introduced in 64 bit also?

I see a beta has been released for Ubuntu 9 but I didn't see a 64bit beta.

[reed9]

I'm currently running the 64 bit beta on a laptop. Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Beta

[darylp]

Yeah I see it now.

I probably saw it before but was confused by the Intel/AMD nonsense.

Why not just say 32 bit or 64bit?

Is there a link to upgrade or do I need to burn a new CD and reinstall?

[Dann]

I'm currently running the 64 bit beta on a laptop. Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Beta

How is it? I skipped 8.10 in favor of the next LTS release. Anything really notable?

[bigtomrodney]

I probably saw it before but was confused by the Intel/AMD nonsense.

Why not just say 32 bit or 64bit?

There are two 64-bit architectures, IA64 and AMD64. When Intel wanted to move to 64-bit they introduced the Itanium architecture but this was a large departure from x86 (32-bit Intel as we know it) and broke backwards compatibility. Adoption was very slow.

AMD decided to instead extend the existing 32-bit x86 platform so that it could run as a 64-bit or 32-bit CPU. After Itanium tanked, Intel decided to instead adopt the AMD approach.

So:

• IA64 = Itanium
• AMD64 = 64-bit as we know it today

[reed9]

You can upgrade: Upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Beta|Ubuntu Geek

Ubuntu 8.10 felt painfully slow to me, and I'm happy to say Jaunty seems to live up to its name overall. It feels a lot more responsive, and it boots a hell of a lot quicker. (I'm also using ext4 partitions.) I haven't used it too much; I mostly stick to my Arch Linux computers, but I haven't had any showstopping bugs. If you generally like how Ubuntu does things, I think it's a nice, if not overwhelming, improvement to 8.10.

Hmm, to be clear, 9.04 isn't the long term release. That won't be until 10.04.

[Dann]

You can upgrade: Upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Beta|Ubuntu Geek

Ubuntu 8.10 felt painfully slow to me, and I'm happy to say Jaunty seems to live up to its name overall. It feels a lot more responsive, and it boots a hell of a lot quicker. (I'm also using ext4 partitions.) I haven't used it too much; I mostly stick to my Arch Linux computers, but I haven't had any showstopping bugs. If you generally like how Ubuntu does things, I think it's a nice, if not overwhelming, improvement to 8.10.

Hmm, to be clear, 9.04 isn't the long term release. That won't be until 10.04.

Hm, I thought every other release was LTS. Live and learn, I guess.

I've been using 8.04, and haven't really had a reason to update. I have 8.10 Studio on another box in the editing room, and haven't ran into much of an issue. Some of the improvements on Nautilus were nice.

[darylp]

Hm, I thought every other release was LTS. Live and learn, I guess.

I've been using 8.04, and haven't really had a reason to update. I have 8.10 Studio on another box in the editing room, and haven't ran into much of an issue. Some of the improvements on Nautilus were nice.

Yeah I think you got it.

Looks like the 8's are an LTS and the 9's are not and the 10's will be LTS again.

Also it looks like the .04's are the introductory iteration with the .10's arriving six months later and more fleshed out followed by the next major version six months after that.

I just upgraded to 9.04 64 bit and now the damn random screen blinking in Firefox is back.

A couple days ago I started off with 8.10 32 bit and then upgraded the next day to 9.04 32 bit.

When I upgraded to 9.04 32 bit the screen started blinking randomly in Firefox.

Anyway I had more memory lying around and two open slots on my board so I installed 6GB of ram and downloaded 8.10 64 bit.

I didn't notice the blinking disappeared when I went to 8.10 64 bit but now that I upgraded to 9.04 64 bit I sure noticed it's back.

I have a new board (Foxconn G45M-S) and the GMA X4500HD onboard video seems buggy (don't know if it's the board or the drivers).

That's part of the reason for trying linux was to see if the video problems would go away (high video demands will shut down the computer).

Some of the Ubuntu screensavers will shut down the computer but increasing the voltage to the NB seems to stop it.

I don't know if I should report the Firefox blinking with 9.04 or not.

It doesn't occur with 8.10 but It could possibly be my board.

[darkrose0510]

Before you get completely confused with the Ubuntu release cycle, you might want to read about directly from Ubuntu: The Ubuntu Release Cycle | Ubuntu