Saturday, October 29, 2016

64 bit - Why (again) Ubuntu's recommended version (for 11.04) is 32bit, not 64bit?





Possible Duplicate:
Why not use 64-bit Ubuntu?







11.04 is already available. But why 32bit is again recommended and what's "wrong" with x64 ?



P.S. I know about this question, but this is kinda different.



There are more 32-bit packages supported compared to the 64-bit set.
And, there is still a wider footprint of 32-bit platforms.
This is the reason we still see 32-bit being 'recommended'.



You might be interested in some history -- related to Ubuntu 10.04/10.10, Why not use 64-bit Ubuntu?
Refers to Launchpad bug 585940, from 26th May 2010 titled,
Text reads "not recommended" for 64-bit.




Guess, it is better to see a 'recommended' tag on 32-bit;
rather than a 'not recommended' tag on the 64-bit version :-)
Maybe that too will go away by the next LTS release...


No comments:

Post a Comment

11.10 - Can't boot from USB after installing Ubuntu

I bought a Samsung series 5 notebook and a very strange thing happened: I installed Ubuntu 11.10 from a usb pen drive but when I restarted (...